Delhi liquor policy case: ED raids AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s home

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted searches at Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh’s home in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case, reported PTI.

Singh, a Rajya Sabha member, and his staff were earlier questioned by the agency, which is investigating the money laundering aspect of the case.

In the wake of the raids, the Aam Aadmi Party asserted in a tweet: “The other name for honesty is MP Sanjay Singh.”

ईमानदारी का दूसरा नाम सांसद संजय सिंह है ????#SanjaySingh pic.twitter.com/zXcvvxD3Bk— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) October 4, 2023

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the Enforcement Directorate would not find anything during the searches, ANI reported. “They [Bharatiya Janata Party] believe that they will lose in the 2024 elections,” he said. “These are the last desperate attempts by them.”

The Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate have alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party government in November 2021 modified the now-scrapped excise policy to ensure a 12% profit margin for wholesalers and a nearly 185% profit margin for retailers.

The Enforcement Directorate also claims that members of a so-called “South Group” had paid at least Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party through businessman Vijay Nair.

In return the “South Group secured uninhibited access, attained stakes in established wholesale businesses and multiple retail zones...

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