New Delhi:
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Delhi Liquor Scam A case has been registered against a senior officer of the Enforcement Directorate investigating the incident and the head of hotel chain Claridge’s. ED assistant director Pawan Khatri, Claridge Hotels and Resorts head Vikramaditya Singh and Air India employee Deepak Sangwan have been named in the case. The ED is probing the Delhi liquor policy and money laundering case involving former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and others, in which Amandeep Singh Dhal is also an accused. He was arrested by the agency earlier this year.
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The ED has claimed that Pawan Khatri and Nitesh Kohr, a clerk in the ED, allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 5 crore to help Amandeep Singh Dhal.
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According to the complaint, Dhal and his father Birender Pal Singh informed ED officials that they had hired chartered accountant Praveen Vats for five years between December 2022 and January 2023 to “arrange assistance” in the ED investigation in the case against Dhal. Crores were given.
In its complaint, the agency alleged, “Praveen Vats stated that Rs 50 lakh from the money received from Amandeep Singh Dhal was advanced to Sangwan and Khatri in mid-December, as demanded by them.”
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As Dhal was arrested in March this year, his father demanded the money back. According to Vats, Rs 1 crore was returned to him on June 29 in Khatri’s presence.
Following the complaint, the CBI registered a corruption case against Khatri, Kohr, Sangwan, Vats, Vikramaditya Singh, Amandeep Singh Dhal and BP Singh for allegedly influencing the ED probe into the Delhi liquor policy matter through bribery.