New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its charge sheet has said that the investigation carried out so far under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has revealed that the Delhi Excise Policy, 2021-22 was continuously manipulated by top leaders of AAP to generate And the ED further states that to the extent of involvement and undermining of criminal activities by the AAP leaders involved in the subject matter, the prosecution complaint further corroborates their design and planning of the scam. The policy promoted providing an exorbitant wholesale profit margin of 12 per cent and a whopping retail profit margin of 185 per cent to cartel structures through backdoors and other illegal activities due to criminal conspiracy by top leaders of AAP to extract kickbacks from businesses. encouraged, said Ed.
ED reveals it has been disclosed by Manish Sisodia’s secretary C Arvind, Danix in his statement dated December 7, 2022, that the draft of the GoM report was given to him in mid-March 2021, when Manish Sisodia called C Arvind . Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence (where Satyendar Jain was also present). The conspiracy by GoM to give wholesale trade to private entities and fix 12 per cent margin (to get 6 per cent kickback from the same) is evident from the statement of C.
Arvind revealed that neither giving wholesale to private entities nor fixing 12 per cent profit margin for them was discussed in the GoM meetings. He further stated that this was the first time he saw these proposals in the draft GoM report and he was instructed to prepare the report on the basis of the said document, the ED said.
The ED also revealed that the mastermind of this entire scam, AAP’s Vijay Nair, is not an ordinary AAP worker, but a close aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and closely interacts with the Deputy Chief Minister for matters related to excise policy. Was doing. It matters. Vijay Nair arranged a meeting of Indospirits owner/controller Sameer Mahandru with Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi and when that did not work out, he arranged a video call for Sameer and Arvind Kejriwal via Facetime on his phone where Arvind tells Sameer that, Vijay is his boy and Sameer should trust him and stay with him.
The ED said that it is relevant to mention these facts in order to establish deficiency in their actions by the political leaders of AAP in connection with the Excise Policy scam. Vijay Nair, who is in charge of AAP’s media and communications, has no role in the Delhi government, in fact acted as a broker/liaison/middleman on behalf of top AAP leaders, negotiating with various stakeholders in the Delhi liquor business. Used to receive bribes/kickbacks in return for favorable outcomes (policy changes) in excise duty. The policy of 2021-22, which was being made at that time. The ED said that they also threatened the stakeholders who did not agree with their demands that the appropriate/desired changes by them may not materialize if they do not accede to their demands.
Vijay Nair in connivance with Dinesh Arora and through him Amit Arora forced a wholesaler to surrender the L1 license and then through that license surrendered manufacturers to choose wholesalers of their choice and avail Margin forced to direct. to his co-conspirators in order to have complete control over the kickbacks.
Vijay Nair has received a bribe of Rs 100 crores on behalf of leaders of Aam Aadmi Party from a group, for the sake of convenience we may call it South Group (as stated in the statements of various persons recorded during investigation , of which prominent persons are Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghava Magunta, Sarath Reddy and K Kavitha.
The South group was represented by Abhishek Boinapalli, Arun Pillai and Buchi Babu. Abhishek Boinapalli facilitated the transfer of Rs. 100 crore bribe in collusion and conspiracy with Vijay Nair and his associate Dinesh Arora. The probe into this kickback trail so far has revealed that some part of this money was used in AAP’s election campaign for the 2022 Goa assembly elections. Cash payment of Rs 70 lakh was made to those volunteers who are part of the survey teams Vijay Nair himself has asked some persons involved in campaign related work to receive the cash payment.
Advertisement/hoarding work was instructed to raise only a part of the claims in the bill and receive the rest in cash. These part cash payments were managed through hawala channels. Teams headed by Mr. Vijay Nair have directed some firms to issue bogus invoices.
The ED has said in the charge sheet that these kickbacks were paid in advance to AAP leaders by the South Group through Vijay Nair as part of an agreement between the South Group. The Rouse Avenue court also took cognizance of the ED charge sheet on Thursday. The court is also currently examining the bail applications of Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinapalli, P Sarath Reddy, Binoy Babu, Sameer Mahandru etc.