By PTI
NEW DELHI: The ED on Wednesday morning arrested liquor businessman Sameer Mahendru in reference to its cash laundering investigation into alleged irregularities within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage, official sources stated.
Mahendru is the managing director of an organization known as Indospirits. Sources stated he was taken into custody underneath the prison sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after he was put by way of a night-long questioning session.
He is anticipated to be produced earlier than an area court docket the place the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will search his additional remand.
The ED motion comes a day after the CBI arrested businessman Vijay Nair on this case through which Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia can also be an accused.
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The ED cash laundering case is predicated on a CBI FIR and each the federal companies have undertaken a number of search operations on this case until now.
The CBI FIR has alleged that Arjun Pandey, an alleged affiliate of Sisodia, had as soon as collected about Rs 2-4 crore in money from Mahendru on behalf of Nair, former CEO of Only Much Louder, an leisure and occasion administration firm.
NEW DELHI: The ED on Wednesday morning arrested liquor businessman Sameer Mahendru in reference to its cash laundering investigation into alleged irregularities within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage, official sources stated.
Mahendru is the managing director of an organization known as Indospirits. Sources stated he was taken into custody underneath the prison sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after he was put by way of a night-long questioning session.
He is anticipated to be produced earlier than an area court docket the place the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will search his additional remand.
The ED motion comes a day after the CBI arrested businessman Vijay Nair on this case through which Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia can also be an accused.
ALSO READ | Delhi Excise Policy case: CBI arrests businessman Vijay Nair
The ED cash laundering case is predicated on a CBI FIR and each the federal companies have undertaken a number of search operations on this case until now.
The CBI FIR has alleged that Arjun Pandey, an alleged affiliate of Sisodia, had as soon as collected about Rs 2-4 crore in money from Mahendru on behalf of Nair, former CEO of Only Much Louder, an leisure and occasion administration firm.
