By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has seized about Rs 1 crore in money after raids performed in reference to a cash laundering investigation into the alleged irregularities within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage, official sources stated Saturday.
The searches had been launched on Friday at about 35 areas in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Telangana’s capital Hyderabad.
About a crore money has been seized from a location in the course of the raids performed in opposition to liquor businessmen, distribution firms and linked entities, sources stated.
Some digital gadgets and paperwork had been additionally seized, they stated with out disclosing the areas of all of the recoveries.
Premises linked to a director of a Delhi-based TV information organisation, who can also be on the board of a Telugu day by day, a city-based businessman whose firm imports and distributes numerous alcoholic drinks and a former Punjab MLA had been additionally searched by ED officers, they stated.
The federal company has performed greater than 103 raids on this case until now and final month arrested Sameer Mahandru, a liquor businessman and managing director of liquor manufacturing company-Indospirit.
The cash laundering case stems from a CBI FIR that had named Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as an accused amongst others.
The scheme got here below the scanner after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena advisable a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities within the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021-22. He had additionally suspended 11 excise officers within the matter.
The ED has questioned AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak and minister Satyendar Jain, who’s lodged in Tihar Jail, whereas the CBI questioned plenty of individuals and arrested businessman, Vijay Nair.
The CBI inquiry was advisable on the findings of the Delhi chief secretary’s report filed in July exhibiting prima facie violations of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act 1991, Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR)-1993, Delhi Excise Act-2009, and Delhi Excise Rules-2010, officers stated.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, whereas reacting to the ED raids on Friday stated tons of of raids by central businesses to search out proof in opposition to Sisodia yielded nothing as he did not do something improper.
Time of tons of of sleuths of the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is being wasted for “dirty politics”, he stated.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has seized about Rs 1 crore in money after raids performed in reference to a cash laundering investigation into the alleged irregularities within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage, official sources stated Saturday.
The searches had been launched on Friday at about 35 areas in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Telangana’s capital Hyderabad.
About a crore money has been seized from a location in the course of the raids performed in opposition to liquor businessmen, distribution firms and linked entities, sources stated.
Some digital gadgets and paperwork had been additionally seized, they stated with out disclosing the areas of all of the recoveries.
Premises linked to a director of a Delhi-based TV information organisation, who can also be on the board of a Telugu day by day, a city-based businessman whose firm imports and distributes numerous alcoholic drinks and a former Punjab MLA had been additionally searched by ED officers, they stated.
The federal company has performed greater than 103 raids on this case until now and final month arrested Sameer Mahandru, a liquor businessman and managing director of liquor manufacturing company-Indospirit.
The cash laundering case stems from a CBI FIR that had named Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia as an accused amongst others.
The scheme got here below the scanner after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena advisable a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities within the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021-22. He had additionally suspended 11 excise officers within the matter.
The ED has questioned AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak and minister Satyendar Jain, who’s lodged in Tihar Jail, whereas the CBI questioned plenty of individuals and arrested businessman, Vijay Nair.
The CBI inquiry was advisable on the findings of the Delhi chief secretary’s report filed in July exhibiting prima facie violations of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act 1991, Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR)-1993, Delhi Excise Act-2009, and Delhi Excise Rules-2010, officers stated.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, whereas reacting to the ED raids on Friday stated tons of of raids by central businesses to search out proof in opposition to Sisodia yielded nothing as he did not do something improper.
Time of tons of of sleuths of the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is being wasted for “dirty politics”, he stated.