ED takes big action in National Herald case, process of taking possession of attached properties begins:

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken major action in the National Herald money laundering case. In fact, the ED has started the process of taking possession of the attached properties of Associated Journals Limited (AJL). Let us tell you that on April 11, 2025, the ED has sent notices to the property registrars of Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow regarding this. Apart from this, Jindal South West Projects Limited in Mumbai's Herald House has also been sent a notice in this matter, which is set up on rent on the 7th, 8th and 9th floors of that building. Let us tell you that now the rent of these three floors will have to be deposited to the ED every month.

This thing came to light in the ED investigation

Let us tell you that in the investigation of the Enforcement Directorate, it has been found that about Rs 988 crore of black money has been earned in this case. For this reason, the properties of AJL were attached on 20 November 2023. Its value is said to be around Rs 751 crore. This action has now been approved by the authorized court on 10 April 2024. Let us tell you that this matter started when Dr. Subramanian Swamy had made a complaint about it. In this complaint, he had alleged that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and their associates had usurped AJL's property worth Rs 2 thousand crore by paying only Rs 50 lakh.

ED will take possession of attached properties of Associated Journals

When ED investigated this matter, it came to light that more than Rs 85 crore was manipulated in the name of false rent, fabricated advertisements and fake donations. Now ED has started the process of taking possession of these properties and notices have been pasted to take possession of these properties and the process of taking possession has started. Under this, ED will take possession of different properties.

What is the National Herald case?

Actually, in the year 1937, a company named The Associated Journals was formed. Its investors were a total of 5 thousand freedom fighters, including former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. National Herald, Navjivan and Qaumi Awaaz newspapers were published by this company. But with time, when this company went into loss, the Congress Party gave a loan of Rs 90 crore to this company so that this company could be pulled out of the loss. Despite this, the company did not get any special success. After this, in the year 2010, another company was formed which was named Young India. 76 percent shares in this company were with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. At the same time, Motilal Bora and Oscar Fernandes had 12-12 percent shares. This new company transferred its loan of Rs 90 crore to the Congress. Apart from this, Associated Journal gave all its shares to Young India. In return, Young India gave only Rs 50 lakh to The Associated Journal. In this very matter, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had filed a case and alleged rigging in it.