NEW DELHI: A day after attaching his properties price Rs 37 crore, the ED on Thursday filed a chargesheet towards Robert Vadra, son-in-law of former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in a Rouse Avenue court docket right here accusing him of laundering “proceeds of crime” in a Gurgaon land deal price over Rs 58 crore.Apart from Vadra, ED has accused 11 others in its chargesheet towards the businessman, husband of MP Priyanka Gandhi. The opposite accused embody Onkareshwar Properties and promoters/administrators Satyanand Yajee & Ok S Virk, sources stated.ED’s motion a part of political witch hunt: Vadra’s workplaceThe Rouse Avenue court docket in Delhi is but to take cognisance of the ED chargesheet towards Robert Vadra. That is the second chargesheet filed towards the Gandhi household in lower than three months. The ED had filed a chargesheet towards Sonia and Rahul Gandhi on April 17 within the Nationwide Herald cash laundering case.Reacting to the ED chargesheet, Vadra’s workplace stated the “current proceedings are nothing greater than an extension of the political witch hunt by the current govt”, including that he would defend and clear his title in court docket. “As a law-abiding citizen, Vadra has at all times and can proceed to increase his fullest cooperation to the authorities and he’s assured that on the finish of all of it, he shall be cleared of any wrongdoing,” the assertion stated.Vadra is dealing with a number of cash laundering instances for a number of land offers he negotiated below the then Congress govts in Haryana and Rajasthan, and for alleged favours he had obtained from the then Congress govt in Haryana led by then CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The Hooda-led Congress govt had allowed modifications in land use from agricultural to industrial/residential for properties acquired by Vadra, resulting in alleged windfall positive factors for him. Vadra can be dealing with a cash laundering investigation in a case filed towards fugitive arms supplier Sanjay Bhandari. He has been accused of allegedly buying properties by Bhandari in London and Dubai from the proceeds of crime from a number of defence offers.Within the current case through which chargesheet has been filed, Vadra has been accused of buying 3.5 acres in Shikohpur village in Gurgaon’s Sector 83 by his Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd from Onkareshwar Properties Pvt Ltd on Feb 12, 2008, for Rs 7.5 crore. The then Congress govt in Haryana instantly gave him a industrial licence to develop the property over 2.7 acres. 4 months later, the identical land was offered to DLF for Rs 58 crore, making a revenue of Rs 50 crore inside months of buying it.ED’s cash laundering probe is predicated on an FIR registered by Gurgaon police in 2018, alleging fraudulent transactions within the land deal. The ED on Wednesday connected 43 properties price over Rs 37 crore related to Vadra and his entities, together with Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd.