DK Shivakumar appears before ED in money laundering case for third time

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Sept 2, 2019: Senior Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money laundering case for the third time on Monday, officials said. He arrived at the ED headquarters at Khan Market around 11 am, they said.

The investigating officer of the case had grilled him for over four hours on Friday and about eight hours on Saturday as part of the probe. The former Karnataka cabinet minister’s statement was recorded during the last two occasions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

His statement is being recorded on Monday too, they said. While making his first appearance on 30 August, after he arrived by air from Bengaluru, the MLA from the Kanakapura Assembly seat, had said he would cooperate with the ED in the probe.

"It is my duty (to appear).... I have to respect the law. We are lawmakers and law-abiding citizens. They (ED) have summoned me.... I don’t know why they have called me under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)." "But, let me see, hear them. I am ready to face them (ED)," he had told reporters outside the ED office.

Shivakumar had to appear before the agency after the Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed his petition challenging the summons issued to him by the ED.


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The senior Congress leader, however, turned emotional after his request for a day’s time to celebrate Ganesh Chaturti with his family in Bengaluru was rejected.

He added that his family offers special prayers for his deceased father during Ganesh Chaturti.

 
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D K Shivakumar’s mother Gowramma on Monday accused the BJP of being jealous about the growth of her son as the Enforcement Directorate grilled him in connection with the alleged money laundering case.

Shivakumar appeared before the ED in New Delhi for the third time on Monday in the last four days. "They (BJP) lack empathy. The BJP and nobody else, is doing it (to Shivakumar). They are jealous that he is growing (politically) but we can’t help it," Gowramma told reporters at her ancestral village in Kanakapura.