Property seized in money laundering probe linked to Indian opposition's Gandhis

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Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of India's main opposition Congress party, addresses the media in New Delhi, India, August 11, 2023..

NEW DELHI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - India's money laundering investigators on Tuesday said they seized properties worth 7.52 billion Indian rupees ($90.34 million) in a probe linked to a nine-year-old complaint against opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia...

The complaint, lodged by a member of parliament from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, accused the Gandhis of forming a shell company and illegally gaining control of property worth $300 million...

"This is a prefabricated structure of deceit, lies and falsehood, of by and for the BJP, to divert, distract and digress in the middle of elections," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said in a statement referring to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

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