NEW DELHI: The CBI on Monday wondered Managing Director of Indospirit Sameer Mahendru alongside with diversified accused named in the FIR in connection with alleged corruption in the Delhi Excise protection case, officers acknowledged.
The agency has already wondered Hyderabad-basically based completely mostly businessman Arun Ramachandra Pillai as soon as while Mahendru is being wondered again in connection with the case, they acknowledged.
The CBI in its FIR has talked about two cases the build Mahendru allegedly made payments totalling about Rs 4-5 crore to “shut associates” of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who’s also named in the FIR.
In accordance with the FIR registered on a reference from Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, routed thru the Union Ministry, Sisodia’s “shut associates”- Amit Arora, director of Buddy Retail Pvt. Exiguous in Gurugram, Dinesh Arora and Arjun Pandey – had been “actively taking into consideration managing and diverting the undue pecuniary relieve composed from liquor licensees” to the accused public servants.
The CBI has alleged that Radha Industries managed by Dinesh Arora got Rs 1 crore from Mahendru.
“Source extra printed that Arun Ramchandra Pillai outdated to net undue pecuniary relieve from Sameer Mahendru for onward transmission to the accused public servants thru Vijay Nair. A person named Arjun Pandey has as soon as composed a massive money amount of about Rs 2-4 crore from Sameer Mahendru on behalf of Vijay Nair,” it claimed.
As neatly as to Sisodia, who also holds the excise portfolio, the CBI has also been named as accused in its FIR then excise commissioner Arava Gopi Krishna, then deputy excise commissioner Anand Kumar Tiwari, assistant excise commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar, 9 businessmen and two companies.
The FIR was as soon as registered on a reference from the bid of job of Lieutenant Governor V Good ample Saxena routed thru the Union Home Ministry. The agency has alleged that Sisodia and diversified accused public servants suggested and took choices on the excise protection 2021-22 without the approval of competent authority with “an blueprint to elongate undue favours to the licencees post subtle”.
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