Karnataka Congress president D Ok Shivakumar on Friday appeared earlier than the Enforcement Directorate right here for questioning within the Nationwide Herald cash laundering case.
Shivakumar, 60, advised reporters earlier than getting into the ED workplace at A P J Abdul Kalam Highway that he was a “regulation abiding citizen” and therefore he was deposing earlier than the federal company regardless of not figuring out why was he precisely known as.
The senior Congress chief has been taking care of the preparations for the Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s traversing by Karnataka and walked together with occasion leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi on Thursday.
Shivakumar had appeared earlier than the ED final on September 19 in Delhi the place he was questioned with regard to a different cash laundering case linked to alleged possession of disproportionate belongings.
The most recent spherical of questioning pertains to Shivakumar and his MP brother D Ok Suresh donating an unspecified amount of cash prior to now to Younger Indian, the corporate that owns Nationwide Herald.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and different senior Congress leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal have been questioned by the ED over the previous couple of months within the Nationwide Herald cash laundering case.