Delhi Excise Scam: ED registers money laundering case against Manish Sisodia
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India
oi-Deepika S
New
Delhi,
Aug
23:
The
Enforcement
Directorate
on
Tuesday
registered
a
money
laundering
case
against
Delhi
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
and
several
others
over
charges
of
corruption
in
excise
policy.
Delhi
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
is
among
the
15
individuals
and
entities
named
in
the
FIR
registered
by
the
CBI
in
connection
with
alleged
irregularities
in
the
implementation
of
the
Delhi
government’s
Excise
Policy
2021-22.
Last
week,
the
CBI
had
carried
out
searches
at
31
places
including
Sisodia’s
residence
and
premises
of
some
bureaucrats,
including
Excise
Commissioner
Krishna
and
two
other
Excise
Department
officials,
and
businessmen.
Following
the
searches,
the
Centre
suspended
senior
IAS
officer
A
Gopi
Krishna
and
Anand
Kumar
Tiwari,
a
DANICS
officer,
in
connection
with
the
Delhi
liquor
policy
case.
While
Krishna
was
the
excise
commissioner
in
the
Delhi
government,
Anand
Kumar
was
the
deputy
excise
commissioner.
Both
the
officials
were
named
in
the
FIR
filed
by
the
CBI
in
the
ongoing
probe.
Story first published: Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 20:02 [IST]
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