The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it had issued an order to provisionally attach properties worth ₹751.90 crore in an alleged money-laundering case involving Associated Journals Ltd. (AJL), which runs the National Herald newspaper, and Young Indian. The agency alleged that the then AJL office-bearers and the Congress had cheated the company’s shareholders and donors of the party.
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Responding to the development, which comes close to the Rajasthan Assembly election, Rajya Sabha member and Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi told The Hindu: “It reflects the frustration and certain defeat of the ruling dispensation in the ongoing elections.”
