The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet on Thursday, 20 November 2025, against Robert Vadra in a money laundering case linked to UK-based defence dealer Sanjay Bhandari. According to ANI, the prosecution complaint has been filed before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court. Vadra’s statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was recorded in July this year.
ANI posted the update on X, saying that the ED has named Robert Vadra in the chargesheet connected to the case involving Sanjay Bhandari. Sanjay Bhandari was declared a fugitive economic offender by a Delhi court in July 2025. Earlier, a UK court had rejected India’s request to extradite him.
Bhandari left India in 2016 after the Income Tax Department raided his premises in New Delhi. The department later filed a chargesheet against him under the anti–black money law of 2015. Following the tax action, the ED also registered a criminal case against him and others under the PMLA in February 2017.
A Delhi court had declared UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a Fugitive Economic Offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018, following a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Bhandari, who fled India in 2016, has been facing investigations by multiple central agencies for alleged involvement in money laundering and black money violations. The ED had filed a criminal case against Bhandari and others in February 2017, shortly after income tax authorities charged him under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015. Based on this, the ED filed a charge sheet in 2020, accusing Bhandari of laundering illicit funds and acquiring overseas assets through unlawful means.
This is not the first time the ED has named Robert Vadra in a money laundering case. Earlier, the agency had filed a chargesheet against him in another case related to a Gurugram land deal. The complaint in that case also named several people and companies, and assets worth ₹37.64 crore were attached.
The Gurugram land case involved a 2008 land deal in Shikohpur (now Sector 83). Robert Vadra’s company, Skylight Hospitality, bought 3.5 acres of land from Onkareshwar Properties for ₹7.5 crore. A few weeks later, the Haryana government — led by then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda — approved a commercial colony license for 2.7 acres of the same land.
Instead of developing the land, Skylight sold it to DLF for ₹58 crore, making a profit of more than ₹50 crore in just four months. In 2012, the Hooda government transferred the development license to DLF. Robert Vadra, who is the brother-in-law of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, was also questioned by the ED regarding the ₹58 crore Gurugram land deal.
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