{"id":277123,"date":"2019-06-03T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277123"},"modified":"2019-06-03T05:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:06:33","slug":"ed-summons-former-minister-praful-patel-in-upa-era-aviation-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ed-summons-former-minister-praful-patel-in-upa-era-aviation-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"ED summons former minister Praful Patel in UPA-era aviation scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned senior NCP leader and former aviation minister Praful Patel (pictured) next week as part of its money-laundering probe into alleged losses suffered by Air India in a multi-crore aviation scam during the UPA era, officials said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>They said Patel, a Rajya Sabha member, has been asked to appear before the investigating officer of the case at 11 am on June 6. This is the first major action against a political leader in the alleged multi-crore aviation scam, which is stated to have taken place during the UPA government. <\/p>\n<p>Official sources said Patel needed to be put through certain revelations made by arrested aviation lobbyist Deepak Talwar and certain evidence unearthed by the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned senior NCP leader and former aviation minister Praful Patel (pictured) next week as part of its money-laundering probe into alleged losses suffered by Air India in a multi-crore aviation scam during the UPA era, officials said on Saturday. They said Patel, a Rajya Sabha member, has been asked to appear before the investigating officer of the case at 11 am on June 6. This is the first major action against a political leader in the alleged multi-crore aviation scam, which is stated to have taken place during the UPA government. Official sources said Patel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}