New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to issue a show-cause notice to former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh in connection with its probe in the Oil-for-Food scam in Iraq.
The ED has found a letter, which Natwar allegedly allegedly wrote to former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz introducing Andaleeb Sehgal and recommending him for contracts under the UN-sponsored oil-for-food programme.
Sehgal is a friend of Natwar's son Jagat Singh. Natwar would be given time to reply to the notice for allegedly abetting violations under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
The Congress saw nothing surprising in ED issuing a notice to Natwar in the wake of the Justice Pathak inquiry authority going into the Volcker Committee Report, which has named him as one of the beneficiaries of oil payoffs.
"Does it really surprise you that Natwar Singh gets a show cause notice?" Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, wondering whether the matter could have gone further without Singh getting a show-cause notice.
Noting that the matter was being 'sensationalised for nothing', Singhvi said it was an issue precisely for the inquiry authority to look into.
Another Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said guilty would be brought to book and no efforts would be spared in this matter.
She said the Congress as a party has no involvement in the matter.
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