Read about diamond Renuka Chowdhury allegedly obtained from a tax evader

On June 22 on the White House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted First Lady Jill Biden a 7.5-carat lab-grown inexperienced diamond with earth-mined diamonds’ chemical and optical attributes. Reacting to this, Congress chief Renuka Chowdhury mentioned, “Modi gifted Green Diamond to Biden’s wife. What gift did he give to his wife?”

Modi gifted Green Diamond to Biden’s spouse.. What present did he give to his spouse? pic.twitter.com/jNPGFeBaIi

— Renuka Chowdhury (@RenukaCCongress) June 22, 2023

As the Congress chief made these remarks mocking PM Modi over the diamond he gifted to Jill Biden, it turns into essential to recall how Renuka Chowdhury allegedly obtained a diamond price Rs 1.2 crore from a tax evader within the 12 months 2000.

A Pune-based stud farm proprietor Hasan Ali Khan is an notorious tax evader who was implicated in a multi-crore rupees cash laundering case in 2011. He allegedly stashed away billions into Swiss financial institution accounts with the assistance of Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah and Delhi-based Pravin Kumar utilizing hawala.

Khan’s one-time enterprise associate Kashinath Tapuriah, a Kolkata-based industrialist had mentioned throughout the interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate in 2011 that Hasan Ali Khan gifted a diamond price Rs 1.2 crores to Congress chief Renuka Chowdhury. According to a report by India Today, Kashinath Tapuriah mentioned, “I had taken a diamond from Soir Jewellers in Mumbai, owned by building contractor Abbas Naqvi, to keep with me. It cost around Rs 1.2 crore. Khan took it saying he would give me the money or the diamond within three months. He told me that he wanted to give the diamond to an important person and referred to Renuka Chowdhury. She is a politician. Khan had told me that she was a very close friend. I was never paid for the diamond.”

When these allegations surfaced, Renuka Chowdhury denied these claims and mentioned, “I am upset and I will definitely take legal recourse. He (Tapuriah) needs to prove he knows me or has met me. He is dropping names to wriggle out of the situation and we politicians are left defenseless. We are bashed and left to prove ourselves”

It is notable that the trial on this multi-crore rupees cash laundering case has not but began. Hasan Ali Khan died in Hyderabad on 23 February 2023, on the age of 71. Besides, Renuka Chowdhury, Khan additionally allegedly had shut ties with actress Jaya Prada and different Andhra Pradesh politicians resembling former chief minister Vijay Bhaskar Reddy.

While Renuka Chowdhury took a jibe at PM Modi over the inexperienced diamond he gifted to Jill Biden, she forgot the allegations in opposition to her of receiving a diamond from a tax evader in 2000.