New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate today (Thursday) interrogated Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav Kumar in connection with Delhi’s new liquor policy scandal.
Bibav Kumar appeared at the Enforcement Directorate office in Delhi today for questioning. His statement was recorded by enforcement officials under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Officials said, “Biphav Kumar is being investigated for using 170 mobile phone calls to destroy evidence related to Rs 1000 crore money laundering against 36 people including Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Biphav Kumar, who were mentioned in the chargesheet filed in the court by the Executive Department.”
So far, the Enforcement Directorate has filed two chargesheets or registered cases in connection with this matter and has arrested 9 people in this regard.
A part of the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in court alleged that money obtained in the scam that repealed Delhi’s new liquor policy was used for the campaign of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party during the 2022 Goa assembly elections.
It is noteworthy that this investigation is taking place a week after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s name was mentioned in the chargesheet of the Enforcement Directorate.
Delhi Deputy Governor V.K. has said that there has been money laundering in the new liquor policy implemented by the Delhi government on November 17 last year. Saxena ordered a CBI probe into the matter. Following this, the Arvind Kejriwal government withdrew the new liquor policy in July this year.
