Intro - Yes Bank Fraud Case: Former chairman of Yes Bank Rana Kapoor has made a big disclosure. He has said that he was forced by Murli Deora to buy a painting of MF Hussain from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for Rs 2 crore.
This money was used for the treatment of Sonia Gandhi. Kapoor lifted the curtains from the exploits of other Congress leaders.
There has been a big disclosure in the charge sheet of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Yes, Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor made a big disclosure during the interrogation.
Rana Kapoor has told that he was forced by Priyanka Gandhi to buy a painting of MF Hussain worth 2 crores and this money was used for the treatment of Sonia Gandhi.
Along with this, Rana Kapoor has also claimed that Murli Deora had also promised him to have a close relationship with the Gandhi family and get Padma honour.
It is noteworthy that in the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the special court in the money laundering case.
It has been told that Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor told the central agency that he had to buy MF Hussain's painting from Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
As well as the money received from the picture was used by the Gandhi family to get Sonia Gandhi treated in New York.
It is written in the charge sheet that Rana Kapoor told the ED that the then Petroleum Minister Murli Deora had said that if he refused to buy the painting of MF Hussain, it would not only spoil the ties with the Gandhi family but he would get the Padma award. will have difficulty.
The ED has recently filed this alleged statement of Rana Kapoor in the special court. According to this, Rana Kapoor also told the ED that Ahmed Patel, a close aide of Sonia Gandhi, had told him that he had done a good job by helping the Gandhi family in treating Sonia Gandhi at this right time and contemplated giving her Padma Bhushan.
According to the ED charge sheet, Rana Kapoor claimed that the late Deora told them during dinner that refusing to buy the painting could have negative effects on him and Yes Bank.
Significantly, Rana Kapoor was arrested in March 2020 and is still in judicial custody. Rana Kapoor told that in the year 2010, Murli Deora pressured him to meet him for a Marwari dinner at the Lodhi Estate bungalow in New Delhi.
According to the charge sheet, Deora was the then Petroleum Minister and this bungalow was allotted to him.