Money laundering case: CBI summons KPCC prez DK Shivakumar

Bengaluru: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued summons to KPCC president DK Shivakumar again in the money laundering case.

Addressing presspersons with this regard Shivakumar said,” CBI issued summons to me on November 19 and asked me to be present for the investigation on November 23.”

“The CBI officials had come to my office on November 19, as I was busy with my daughter’s engagement they left the summons at my office. They had asked me to be present for investigation on November 23 but as I will be going on the North Karnataka tour that day, I requested them to postpone the date of investigation,” he said.

I will be appearing before the investigating agency on November 25, he added.

In the month of October CBI had conducted raids at DK Shivakumar’s 14 properties in Karnataka, Mumbai, and Delhi in an alleged corruption case. Shivakumar’s brother and Bengaluru Rural MP DK Suresh’s houses was also been raided by the central agency.

The CBI had then registered a case against the Karnataka Congress chief on allegations of acquisition of disproportionate assets.

Last year, Shivakumar was lodged at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case probed by the Enforcement Directorate. Shivakumar was arrested on September 3, 2019, by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case filed in 2018 following an investigation by the Income Tax Department in 2017, when unaccounted cash to the tune of more than Rs 8 crore was found in New Delhi in locations allegedly linked to the Congress leader.