The CBI has registered a case against a senior ED official probing the Delhi liquor scam

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The CBI has registered a case against a senior ED official probing the Delhi liquor scam

ED has claimed in its complaint that Pawan Khatri took Rs 5 crore as bribe.

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 a complaint lodged with the CBI on August 7, the ED said that Praveen Vats and Air India employee Deepak Sangwan took Rs 5 crore from Dhal on the pretext of helping them in the liquor policy money laundering case through Pawan Khatri.

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.

Vikramaditya Singh has said in his statement that Aman Dhal requested him for help and he asked him to help Vats. The ED complaint said Vats told them that “after deducting ED officials and other expenses, the remaining money would be shared equally between them.”

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.

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