New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly “managed” money funds for AAP’s marketing campaign within the 2022 Goa Meeting polls, in reference to the Delhi excise policy-linked cash laundering case, official sources stated on Monday.
The Aam Aadmi Social gathering alleged the ED was finishing up a “politically motivated” probe and it was unable to get well a single rupee or discover proof within the matter.
Singh was taken into custody below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) on April 12 and was produced earlier than a particular court docket right here the subsequent day, the sources stated.
He has been despatched to ED custody until April 18 by the court docket, they stated.
That is the seventeenth arrest within the case by the ED. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his celebration colleague and former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, BRS chief Okay Kavitha and a lot of liquor businessmen and others have been arrested earlier by the federal company.
Singh was earlier arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation too in the identical case. The cash laundering case stems from the CBI FIR.
The ED has knowledgeable the court docket via its official paperwork that Chanpreet Singh “managed” money funds for the marketing campaign of the AAP in the course of the 2022 Goa elections and had a “relationship” with the political outfit that guidelines Delhi at present.
It has been alleged by the company that the ‘South Group’ — comprising Kavitha, TDP candidate from Ongole Lok Sabha seat Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, businessman Sarath Chandra Reddy and others — paid Rs 100 crore bribe to the AAP for acquiring a first-rate place within the Delhi liquor market as a part of the now-scrapped excise coverage for 2021-22.
Out of those alleged kickbacks, the ED has claimed, Rs 45 crore was utilized by the AAP to fund its Goa election marketing campaign.
The ED has claimed that money funds have been made to survey staff, space managers, meeting managers and others in Goa who have been engaged in election marketing campaign actions of the AAP and these folks informed the company that this was “managed” by an individual named Chanpreet Singh.
It additionally stated that an worker of an ‘Angadia’ agency, which allegedly moved money funds illegally, had “admitted” to disbursing big quantities of money in Goa to some folks together with Singh, who used to work for Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd.
Chariot Productions was the corporate engaged by the AAP for its Goa ballot marketing campaign. The corporate’s director, Rajesh Joshi, was arrested within the case by the ED final yr.
The ED had alleged that Singh collected greater than Rs 17 crore (Rs 17,38,14,500 in whole) in over 18 situations from the ‘Angadia’ firm worker between August 2021-January 2022, and this was “additionally corroborated” by CDR (name knowledge information of cell phone) evaluation.
It stated that Singh “obtained a wage from the Aam Aadmi Social gathering” in February 2022 and in addition from an organization referred to as Wizspk Communications and PR Ltd which was engaged by the Delhi authorities.
Furthermore, the ED claimed that he had additionally obtained funds from the OML (Solely A lot Louder) occasions administration firm of arrested AAP communications in-charge Vijay Nair, and “these information are prima facie reflective of his relationship with the Aam Aadmi Social gathering”.
In an announcement, the AAP stated the complete nation is aware of “the actual Delhi liquor rip-off” befell after ED began its investigation and arrested rip-off kingpin Sarath Reddy who later transferred Rs 55 crore of his proceeds of crime to BJP through electoral bonds.” Even after two years of investigation and over 500 raids, not a single rupee or proof has been recovered from AAP leaders, it stated.
“The ED is operating a politically motivated investigation and making its case solely primarily based on statements of approvers, a lot of whom like Sarath Reddy have a direct reference to the BJP,” the celebration alleged.
In a associated improvement, Kejriwal didn’t get any interim reduction on Monday from the Supreme Courtroom which sought a response from the ED by April 24 on his plea difficult his arrest within the cash laundering case.
The excise case pertains to alleged corruption and cash laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena advisable a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities within the formulation and implementation of the liquor coverage. Subsequently, the ED registered a case below the PMLA. PTI NES VIT NSD NSD
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