New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has claimed in its charge sheet filed last month that Robert Vadra tried to mislead investigators by shifting the blame for the land deal in Gurugram's Shikohpur on three deceased persons, saying they handled such deals, and feigning ignorance about real estate matters from that period. The businessman husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has refused to recognise the person who actually signed on the Rs.7.5 crore land deal in 2008, according to the charge sheet, reviewed by HT. The financial crimes probe agency filed the charge sheet on July 17 naming Vadra, two other individuals and 8 companies as accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act alleging that Vadra received proceeds of crime worth Rs.58 crore in the Shikohpur deal. The agency also attached 43 immovable properties worth over Rs.38 crore linked to him, including a flat in the posh The Aralias in Gurugram. It is alleged that SLHPL (Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd), a company of Robert Vadra, purchased 3.53 acres of land in Shikohpur from Omkareshwar Properties Pvt Ltd (OPPL) on February 12, 2008, for Rs.7.50 crore. In September 2012, the company sold this land to realty major DLF for Rs.58 crore. The land deal got into controversy in October 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and land records-cum-inspector-general of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this, categorising the transaction as violative of the state consolidation act and some related procedures. Police filed a case in the matter on September 1, 2018. The son-in-law of former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was questioned by the agency on April 15-16 this year and his statements are part of the charge sheet. To most of the queries put up to him, Vadra claimed he "acted on behest of the understanding and guidance of three people -- Late Rajesh Khurana, Late HL Pahwa and Late Mahesh Nagar -- in all real estate matters" and that he had "no knowledge of real estate and technical details of real estate matters in the early years of 2008" as it was a new business for him. Asserting that Vadra has been evasive in his replies, ED's charge sheet says "the documentary evidence collected during the course of investigation clearly establishes that Vadra is trying to mislead the investigation as he has put the entire onus with regards to purchase of land, seeking licence for commercial property on three deceased persons: Pahwa, Khurana and Nagar. On the contrary, the documentary evidence clearly provides that none of these persons were involved in the said transaction but the authorised persons were Sunil Kumar and Dhirendra Dadwal, the signatories on behalf of Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd". Vadra, according to his statement, said he didn't know Sunil Kumar and Dhirendra Dadwal. HT reached out to Vadra for a comment but there was no response till the time of going to press. He previously termed the action against him as nothing more than "political witch hunt"....