New Delhi, December 15
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today questioned for seven hours Jagat Singh, the son of former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, in connection with the Iraq oil-for-food scam.
Jagat Singh, who had ducked three earlier summons, finally appeared before the investigating agency this morning, and was confronted with the documents the ED had procured from Jordan and Iraq recently and the statements given by others in the case.
Sources said he would be summoned again and in the next rounds of questioning, he could be confronted with others who allegedly benefited in the scam.
Sources said the ED would first question Jagat Singh and come to some conclusion before issuing summons to Natwar Singh for questioning.
Natwar Singh would certainly be questioned in the case, “but the question is when ….that is when we have reasonable evidence and documents to suggest his alleged role in the scam as
stated by the Volcker report,” the sources said.
A special team of officials investigating the case questioned Jagat Singh on the bank transactions and non-contractual benefits accrued by him, his father Natwar Singh and the Congress.
His questioning comes days after a three-member ED team returned from a visit to Jordan and Iraq where it is believed to have collected details about bank transactions in 2001.
Emerging after the questioning, Jagat Singh said the ED officials asked him to recollect his visit to Iraq in 2001 along with a Congress delegation headed by his father.
Jagat had admitted that he had accompanied his father to Iraq but asserted that he and his father were innocent.
