Ashish Ranjan
Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate reported that the AAP used funds from the alleged Delhi liquor scam to fund its election campaign in Goa. “Investigation of the trail of this bribe has thus far revealed that a portion of these funds were used in the AAP’s election campaign,” the ED stated in the case’s chargesheet.
In the 2022 elections for the Goa Assembly, the AAP won two seats.According to the ED, cash payments totaling nearly 70 lakh rupees were made to volunteers who participated in AAP survey teams. The investigation agency stated that AAP’s communications chief Vijay Nair “instructed certain campaign workers to receive cash payments.”
Vijay Nair, on behalf of the AAP, allegedly received Rs 100 crore in bribes from YSRCP MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Aurobindo Pharma director P Sarath Chand Reddy, and Telangana chief minister KCR’s daughter Kavitha Kalvakuntla.
The central agency stated that Abhishek Boinpally, a businessman from Hyderabad, had conspired with Dinesh Arora, an aide to Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, to facilitate the transfer of the aforementioned funds.
Thursday, the ED filed a supplemental chargesheet in the case and presented it to the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi. In the supplementary charge sheet, AAP member Vijay Nair and businessmen Sarath Reddy, Binoy Babu, Abhishek Boinpally, and Amit Arora were named.
Manish Sisodia’s name was omitted from the chargesheet. The ED informed the court that additional inquiries are being conducted into the matter.
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Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal responded to the ED’s accusation by stating that it was “completely fictitious.”
WHAT IS AAP DELHI LIQUOR FRAUD?
After Delhi L-G Vinay Kumar Saxena recommended a CBI investigation into alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021-22, the liquor scheme came under scrutiny.
Implemented on November 17, 2021, the Delhi Excise Policy was repealed by the government of Arvind Kejriwal in July 2022, following a CBI investigation into its implementation. The ED is investigating the alleged scam’s money trail.
