D K Shivakumar case: Karnataka co-op bank president K N Rajanna appears before ED
New Delhi: Karnataka State Apex Cooperative Bank President K N Rajanna on Wednesday appeared before the ED in connection with the money laundering case filed against former state minister D K Shivakumar, officials said.
They said Rajanna, a senior Congress leader of the state and a former MLA, will be questioned with regard to multi-crore loans given by the bank to a sugar company linked to Shivakumar some years back.
Rajanna's statememt will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and 'certain' links of him with Shivakumar will be investigated, agency sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate, in the past, has grilled a number of people and associates of Shivakumar including his daughter Aisshwarya, 23, and Congress MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar.
Shivakumar, a former Karnataka cabinet minister, was arrested by the ED on September 3 here and is in the agency's custody.
The central agency in September last year registered a money laundering case against Shivakumar, Haumanthaiah, an employee at the Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, and others.
The criminal case was filed based on an Income Tax Department charge sheet filed against Shivakumar and others before a court in Bengaluru for alleged tax evasion and hawala dealings.
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Blue corner notice issued against Prajwal Revanna, says Karnataka HM G Parameshwara
Bengaluru, May 5: Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Sunday said a Blue Corner notice has been issued and Interpol's help is being taken to bring NDA's Hassan Lok Sabha candidate Prajwal Revanna, who is facing sexual harassment cases, back to India.
A Blue Corner Notice is issued by the international police cooperation body to collect additional information from its member countries about a person's identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.
The minister said the Special Investigation Team formed to probe the sex scandal will decide on how to bring Prajwal back.
"Already Blue Corner notice has been issued. The Interpol will inform all the countries and locate him," Parameshwara told reporters here.
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Appreciating the work of SIT, formed to probe the case, he said the team is doing its job and has acted as per law on the complaints it has received.
He recalled it has arrested the 'accused,' apparently referring to Prajwal's father HD Revanna, who was apprehended in an abduction case.
Prajwal's father Revanna, a JD(S) MLA, is also facing molestation and kidnapping charges, and has been arrested by the SIT on Saturday.
He was arrested by the sleuths of SIT on Saturday in the kidnapping case linked to sexual abuse allegations against his son Prajwal. He was picked up soon after a court here rejected his anticipatory bail plea.
Explicit video clips allegedly involving the 33-year-old Prajwal, grandson of JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister Deve Gowda, had started making the rounds in Hassan in recent days, following which the state government constituted the SIT to probe the sexual abuse allegations against the MP.
