ED Slams AAP: used Delhi liquor fraud money to fund Goa Election
ED Slams AAP: According to ED, survey team volunteers received cash rewards totalling 70 lakhs
The Enforcement Directorates (ED) slams AAP and said in a new chargesheet that an accused in the Delhi Liquor scam, Aam Aadmi Party’s communication in-charge – Vijay Nair, set up a FaceTime video connection from his phone between Sameer Mahendru, chief of Indospirits, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. According to the agency, Vijay Nair allegedly accepted Rs. 100 crores as an advance for licences under Delhi’s liquor policy on behalf of AAP leaders from the “South group.”
The chargesheet asserts that Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party used the proceeds from the liquor fraud to fund its Goa campaign.
According to the agency, survey team volunteers received cash rewards totalling 70 lakhs.
AAP used Delhi liquor scam money to fund Goa polls campaign, says ED
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It was also claimed that Vijay Nair received kickbacks of Rs 100 crore on behalf of the AAP from a group that included Telangana CM KCR’s daughter Kavitha Kalvakuntla, YSRCP MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, and director P Sarath Chandra Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma.
According to the central agency, Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally conspired with Dinesh Arora, an aide to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, to assist in the movement of the funds, as mentioned earlier.
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The ED presented the case’s supplementary chargesheet before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court. The additional chargesheet names AAP’s Vijay Nair, businessmen Sarath Reddy, Binoy Babu, Abhishek Boinpally, and Amit Arora.
Manish Sisodia was not named on the chargesheet. The ED informed the court that additional inquiry into the situation is ongoing.
Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi and the leader of the AAP, responded to the ED’s accusation by calling it “completely fictional.”
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