The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday puzzled Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief K Kavitha for 9 hours in its ongoing probe into the alleged cash laundering in Delhi excise coverage-associated irregularities, officers stated. She has once more been summed with the aid of using the prob organisation on March 16.
Kavitha`s interrogation, which started at eleven am and ended at eight pm, on the ED headquarters in Delhi, centered on her position in influencing the now-scrapped excise coverage and paying kickbacks to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, officers acquainted with the probe stated.
The federal anti-cash laundering probe organisation on Saturday requested her questions associated with her alleged assembly with AAP`s conversation in-rate Vijay Nair, who met liquor businessmen and politicians on the time of coverage formula and implementation of the coverage, her affiliation with Sameer Mahendru`s Indospirits Group to manipulate more than one retail zones in Delhi, and develop charge of kickbacks worth ₹one hundred crore allegedly paid to the AAP leaders with the aid of using a South Group of which Kavitha become a member.
Mahendru and Nair are each accused withinside the excise coverage case this is being investigated with the aid of using the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The ED has alleged that part of a ₹one hundred crore “kickback” acquired with the aid of using Nair from a “South Group” on behalf of the AAP leaders become used for the Goa meeting elections campaign.
She become additionally faced with the statements of Butchibabu Gorantla, her former chartered accountant (CA) and Arun Ramchandra Pillai, who represented her hobbies throughout more than one conferences with Nair and others. While Butchibabu become arrested with the aid of using the CBI on February 7, Pillai become arrested with the aid of using ED this Monday.
It is, however, now no longer acknowledged if she become faced with former Delhi deputy leader minister Manish Sisodia as well, who’s in ED custody until March 17 after he become arrested beneathneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (MPLA) in advance this week.
The ED has already recorded Butchibabu`s declaration, following which Kavitha become summoned for questioning. In his declaration recorded earlier than the ED officers on February 23, Butchibabu stated “There become a political information among K Kavitha and the leader minister of Delhi (Arvind Kejriwal) and (former) deputy CM (Manish Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha additionally met Vijay Nair on 19th-twentieth March 2021.”
“Nair become attempting to electrify Kavitha with what he may want to do withinside the coverage. He become performing on behalf of Kejriwal and Sisodia. The information become that during alternate for the favours that may be performed withinside the coverage and the Delhi liquor commercial enterprise for Kavitha, a few budget could take delivery of to the AAP,” the declaration added, reviewed with the aid of using HT.
“Out of the deal that become among Kavitha and pinnacle AAP leaders, she become given stakes in partnership with Mahendru and distribution of Pernod Ricard,” ED stated in its remand notice on Friday bringing up Butchibabu`s declaration, even as looking for Sisodia`s custody.
Pillai, in step with investigators, represented the Benami investments of Kavitha. He become allegedly actively worried in cartel formation and become an companion withinside the charge of bribe cash on behalf of the South Group.
The South Group contains YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Group), and K Kavitha (daughter of Telangana leader minister K Chandrasekhar Rao) and Delhi-primarily based totally businessman Sameer Mahendru.
On Friday, Telangana leader minister and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao accused the Centre of the usage of important probe organizations to goal their leaders and raised issues that his daughter and lawmaker K Kavitha may quickly be arrested with the aid of using the ED.
Kavitha herself has stated that she had performed not anything incorrect even as alleging that the centre become the usage of the ED because the saffron birthday birthday celebration couldn’t advantage a backdoor access in Telangana.
“These methods of intimidation in opposition to the combat of my father and leader minister K Chandrashekar Rao, and the BRS will now no longer deter us,” she stated in advance this week.
She become in the beginning imagined to seem earlier than the ED on March nine however she had sought to defer the questioning, which become shifted to Saturday. On Saturday, she arrived on the ED workplace instantly from his father`s legitimate house on Tughlak Road.
A 2nd officer stated above stated – “She wishes to be puzzled in addition approximately numerous components withinside the case so she has been referred to as once more on March 16”.
