A Delhi court is set to announce its decision on whether to proceed with the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet against businessman Robert Vadra, who is the son-in-law of former Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The charges are related to a money laundering case associated with UK-based defense dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
The Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution complaint against Vadra under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act before the Rouse Avenue Court. The case involves alleged overseas assets and financial transactions linked to Bhandari, who is facing legal actions for undisclosed foreign assets.
Vadra was named as an accused by the ED after the completion of its investigation and the agency has requested the court to acknowledge its prosecution complaint. During the probe, Vadra’s statement was recorded in July 2025 under the PMLA.
Sanjay Bhandari, the main accused in the case, has been facing charges regarding undisclosed overseas assets and was declared a fugitive economic offender by a Delhi court after leaving India in 2016. The ED’s inquiry originated from income-tax raids on Bhandari in 2016, revealing communications and documents indicating his connections with Vadra and his associates.
The Enforcement Directorate has seized several properties in India allegedly linked to Vadra or his associated entities, asserting that they are proceeds of crime derived from Bhandari’s offshore transactions. In a related development, the ED informed a Special Court that Vadra received Rs 58 crore from a questionable land deal in Gurugram, with Rs 53 crore channeled through Sky Light Hospitality and Rs 5 crore through Blue Breeze Trading.
As part of its investigation, the Central agency has provisionally attached 43 immovable properties valued at Rs 38.69 crore, identified as directly linked to the proceeds of crime.
