NOB_HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Serilingampally MLA Arikepudi Gandhi for questioning in the Sahiti Infratech Ventures money laundering case.

The MLA has been directed to appear before the ED office in Hyderabad on September 27

The agency is probing an alleged transfer of around Rs 2.1 crore from Sahiti Infratech accounts to Gandhi’s personal and business accounts and is examining whether the transactions had legitimate business backing.

The ED investigation follows FIRs filed by Telangana Police after homebuyers complained that Sahiti Infra collected money through pre-launch offers for flats and villas but failed to deliver.

While initially estimated at Rs 248 crore, the ED now pegs the scam at over Rs 842 crore, with about Rs 216 crore allegedly collected in cash off the books.

So far, the ED has frozen 56 bank accounts and attached properties worth Rs 173.6 crore. MD B. Lakshminarayana and former director Sandu Purnachandra Rao have been arrested. Actor Jagapathi Babu, who was the brand ambassador, was also questioned earlier as a witness.

Gandhi, who won on a BRS ticket in 2023 and later joined Congress, is under scrutiny as part of the wider money trail probe.