The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday detained Sameer Mahendru, an alcohol trader who was amongst the implicated in the supposed Delhi alcohol fraud.
The ED’s action comes a day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) jailed Vijay Nair, another alcohol trader implicated in the event.
According to the FIR, a minimum of 2 payments facing crores were apparently made to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s ‘close partners’ by Sameer Mahendru, the owner of Indospirits. Mahendru is among the alcohol traders presumably associated with abnormalities in the framing and application of the now defunct import tax policy.
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The CBI FIR mentions that Sameer Mahendru moved a quantity of Rs 1 crore to Radha Industries handled by Dinesh Arora, a close assistant of Sisodia.
Further, Arjun Pandey, another close assistant of Sisodia, gathered around Rs 2 to 4 crore from Sameer Mahendru on behalf of one Vijay Nair, the CBI stated.
” Sources even more exposed that Arun Ramchandra Pillai utilized to gather excessive budgeting benefit from Sameer Mahendru for onward transmission to the implicated public servants through Vijay Nair. An individual called Arjun Pandey has actually as soon as gathered a substantial money quantity of about Rs 2-4 crore from Sameer Mahendru on behalf of Vijay Nair,” the CBI included.
The CBI’s FIR mentions that Manish Sisodia and other public servants implicated in the event took choices relating to the import tax policy 2021-22 without the approval of proficient authority with “an objective to extend unnecessary favours to the licensees post tender”.
An overall of 15 individuals, consisting of Manish Sisodia, were called in the FIR associated to criminal conspiracy and arrangements of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The FIR was based upon a referral from Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, who advised a CBI probe into the supposed abnormalities in execution of the Excise Policy 2021-22
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