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New Delhi: The former External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, on Tuesday sent a legal notice to the Director of the Enforcement Directorate asking him to clarify whether certain statements attributed to the agency in the media were actually made by its officials. Mr. Singh's lawyer, Pradeep Kumar Rai, cited an article in the June 12, 2006 issue of India Today, and asked him to reply "within a period of three days as to whether any of ... statements [attributed to the ED] were made by you or by any of your officials of the Enforcement Directorate." If the statements had indeed been made, the notice asked that the "sources of such information" be revealed. "[F]ailing which my clients will be forced to resort to such legal proceedings against you and your officials as are advised." The article made a number of allegations against Mr. Singh and his son, Jagat, whose alleged involvement in the oil-for-food scandal is currently being probed. It claimed that "incriminating documents unearthed during the probes by the Pathak Inquiry and the ED have tightened the noose around them." Among the links the magazine claims were unearthed, citing a statement made to the ED by London-based businessman Aditya Khanna, were those that allegedly tied Mr. Jagat Singh to Masefield AG, the company that lifted crude from Iraq under the oil-for-food transactions. Mr. Singh's lawyer, however, stressed in his notice that "as per investigation, there are no documents which would show that my clients had anything to do with the transactions in question." He said: "[E]ach and every one of the ... statements [attributed to ED sources in the magazine] have been made with a malicious intent to besmirch the reputation of my clients." Both his clients, he said, "have instructed me that they have had nothing to do with the transactions in question."
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