NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate reportedly conducted additional searches on Wednesday, including at the residences of several people connected to AAP MP Sanjay Singh here, as part of its ongoing investigation in the money laundering case involving alleged anomalies in the Delhi spirits policy, according to official sources.
Ajit Tyagi and Sarvesh Mishra, two of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) leaders, are reportedly also the targets of federal agents' raids, according to the leader of the party. According to sources, the searches being conducted in accordance with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act's (PMLA) requirements are covering roughly six different businesses.
"The Modi government's bullying is at its peak. I am fighting against Modi's dictatorship. The fake ED investigation of ED was exposed in front of the whole country. ED accepted its mistake and now when nothing was found after the central agency raided Singh's home, today ED raided the house of colleagues Ajit Tyagi and Sarvesh Mishra," Sanjay Singh tweeted.
The action was done as a result of some new information that was unearthed during the interrogation of a couple of the case's accused. According to the sources, several of the people being searched have ties to Singh.
A few years ago, the Rajya Sabha MP wrote to the Union financial secretary asking for permission to bring charges against the director of the ED, an associate director, and the investigating officer in the liquor policy case for allegedly making "false and derogatory claims" about him in connection with this investigation.
According to ED sources, the agency had submitted a court appeal on April 20 to amend a "typographical/clerical" error involving Sanjay Singh's name in its charge sheet.
According to sources, Singh's name appears four times in the charge sheet, but one of those references was incorrect since Rahul Singh's name was written in instead of Singh's accidentally.
The Delhi government's excise policy for 2021–2022, which granted licences to liquor traders, is accused by the ED and the CBI of permitting cartelization and favouring those dealers who had reportedly paid bribes for it. The AAP firmly disputes this allegation.
The policy was soon abandoned, and the lieutenant governor of Delhi suggested a CBI investigation. The ED then filed a complaint under the PMLA.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asserts that the new alcohol policy permitted merchants to provide significant discounts in order to draw customers. The AAP, on the other hand, denied the allegations, asserting that its strategy was intended to fight corruption, and charged the BJP with exploiting federal institutions for its own political ends.
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