The Enforcement Directorate, which has been investigating into the Delhi liquor rip-off, alleged that K. Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and daughter of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, become certainly considered one among the most important beneficiaries of the rip-off except the Aam Admi Party. The different beneficiaries are ‘Aurobindo’ Sharat Chandra Reddy and YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy.
The ED, relating to its research and the statements recorded via way of means of numerous people worried withinside the rip-off, alleged in its chargesheet that the “South Group” comprising the 3 people referred to above, paid kickbacks of Rs one hundred cr to Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP to advantage manage over the liquor commercial enterprise withinside the countrywide capital.
In go back to the kickbacks, the South Group bagged wholesale alternate and numerous retail zones. According to the ED, Kavitha holds sixty five in keeping with cent together with the Magunta own circle of relatives via her proxy Arun Pillai in Indospirit, which made at the least Rs 195 crore as income via way of means of promoting 14 crore bottles in retail. This is in sharp comparison to simply Rs 21,000 income made via way of means of any other wholesaler Lake Forest which additionally paid licence rate of Rs five crore.
The ED alleged that Vijay Arora, representing the AAP, coerced Pernod Ricord, certainly considered one among the most important liquor producers withinside the country, to make Indospirit as their wholesaler for Delhi. As in keeping with the deal reached among the South Group and the AAP, the 12 in keeping with cent income accumulated on income might be shared similarly among them.
According to the chargesheet, Kavitha become in consistent contact with the opposite gamers both via way of means of assembly them at once in big name lodges in Delhi and at her house in Hyderabad or via FaceTime calls. The ED already hooked up that she destroyed approximately dozen cell telephones reputedly to erase evidence.
Arun Pillai, who the ED alleged as benami of Kavitha in Indospirit, discovered in his announcement that Kavitha and Vijay Nair met in The Oberoi Maidens and mentioned approximately convalescing kickbacks paid to AAP. He discovered that he were representing Kavitha in Indospirit. Sameer Mahendru, any other associate in Indospirit, additionally corroborated with Pillai’s model in his statements.
