New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate summoned Jagat Singh, the son of former minister of External Affairs, Natwar Singh, for questioning on Thursday in the Iraq Oil-for-Food scam.
The summons for questioning came in the wake of the allegations made by former Ambassador to Croatia, Aneil Mathrani.
Mathrani, who worked closely with Singh in the Congress' Foreign Affairs Cell before the party came to power, had told the India Today magazine in an interview that Jagat Singh was present in Baghdad in 2001 - the same time as the official Congress delegation led by Natwar Singh was there.
Mathrani claimed that Natwar Singh's son Jagat Singh and his friend Andaleeb Sehgal were present at the dinner hosted by the then Indian Ambassador to Iraq R Dayakar.
He had also said that both the Congress and Natwar Singh received the oil coupons from the then Saddam regime for personal services.
The ED team decided to question Jagat Singh after their Iraq and Jordan sojourn, from where they are believed to have collected details about bank transactions made by Jagat and Andaleeb, in 2001.
According to reports, large sums of money had been allegedly deposited by the duo in three banks in Jordan, in lieu of oil from the Saddam Hussien regime.
Jagat had earlier admitted that he had accompanied his father to Iraq in January 2001.
On coming out of the ED office, Jagat Singh claimed that all the officials wanted from him was a recollection of his trip ti Iraq.
(With inputs from PTI)
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