CBI files case against Enforcement Directorate officer probing liquor 'scam'
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against a senior official of the Enforcement Directorate and the chief of a hotel chain in connection with the ongoing investigation related to the Delhi liquor scam.
The CBI has named Pawan Khatri, Assistant Director of the ED, Vikramaditya Singh, the chief of a popular hotel chain, and Deepak Sangwan, an employee of Air India.
The ED is probing the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case involving former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and others. Sisodia was arrested by the agency earlier this year.
The financial probe agency has claimed Pawan Khatri, and Nitesh Kohar, a clerk in the ED, had allegedly received Rs. 5 crore as bribe through conduits to help Amandeep Singh Dhall.
According to the complaint, Dhall and his father Birender Pal Singh informed ED officials that they had given Rs. 5 crore to Praveen Vats, a Chartered Accountant, between December 2022 and January 2023 to "arrange help" in the ED investigation in the case against Dhall.
In its complaint to the CBI dated August 7, the ED said Praveen Vats and Deepak Sangwan, the Air India employee, had taken Rs. 5 crore from Dhall on the pretext of helping him in the liquor policy money laundering case through Pawan Khatri.
"Vats stated that of the amount received from Dhall, 50 lakhs was given to Sangwan and Khatri as advance as demanded by them in mid-December," the agency alleged in its complaint.
As Dhall was arrested in March this year, his father demanded a refund. On June 29, Rs. 1 crore was returned to him in the presence of Khatri, as stated by Vats.
Following the complaint, the CBI registered a corruption case against Khatri, Kohar, Sangwan, Vats, Vikramaditya Singh, Amandeep Singh Dhall, and BP Singh for allegedly influencing ED's investigation in Delhi liquor policy case through bribes.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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