New Delhi: Saffron woes over the Lalit Modi controversy continued to grow on Wednesday as an ongoing investigation by the Enforcement Directorate against the former IPL chief and his associates found that a firm owned by Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s son Dushyant Singh, a BJP MP from Jhalawar-Baran, had got Rs 11.63 crore from the former IPL commissioner. This came amid a claim by Lalit Modi in an interview to a TV channel that Ms Raje had accompanied his wife for her surgery in Portugal.
Reports indicate that the ED, while on the trail of Rs 21 crore that Lalit Modi’s company Anand Heritage Hotels Pvt Ltd had got from an unknown Mauritius-based entity, Wilton Investment Ltd, stumbled on a transaction where a part of this was used to pay Dushyant Singh’s firm Niyant Heritage Hotels Pvt Ltd.
Sources said the ED had begun investigations into this case in October last year, after it detected some foreign investment coming into this group which had Lalit Modi’s relatives at the helm. But in 2007, the businessman-turned-cricket czar took over the firm’s directorship along with his wife.
Sources said Mr Lalit Modi would also be asked to join the probe “whenever” the investigators required his presence. Ms Raje on Wednesday spoke to BJP president Amit Shah, sources said. She discussed the claims made by Lalit Modi involving her.
