Raipur: The Enforcement Directorate team produced businessman Anwar Dhebar in the court today in connection with the two thousand crore liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. Tell that after four days remand, Ajay Singh Rajput was produced in the court. Along with this, Nitish Purohit has also been introduced. Nitish Purohit is a hotelier.
After Delhi, now liquor scam has come to the fore in Chhattisgarh. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) claims that this scam is worth two thousand crores. It is also claimed that many big leaders and officers of Chhattisgarh are also involved in this scam.
Anwar Dhebar, who is said to be the main accused in this case, has been arrested by the ED. He has been arrested in the money laundering case. The court has sent Anwar on ED’s remand for four days. Anwar Dhebar is the brother of Congress leader and Mayor of Raipur Ejaz Dhebar.
According to the news agency, the ED has named Anwar Dhebar as well as IAS officer Anil Tuteja as the ‘mastermind’ of the alleged liquor scam in Chhattisgarh.
ED says that Anwar Dhebar was summoned seven times for questioning in the case, but he did not join the investigation. Finally, on the morning of May 5, he was arrested from a hotel in Raipur.
Earlier in March this year, the ED had also raided 35 locations in Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Delhi, including Anwar Dhebar’s house.
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What is ED’s claim?
ED has issued a press release giving information about this whole scam. The ED claims that between 2019 and 2022, ‘immense corruption’ took place, in which evidence of ‘money laundering’ of two thousand crore rupees has been found.
ED said that in the investigation done under the Money Laundering Act, it has been found that Anwar Dhebar is running an organized criminal syndicate in Chhattisgarh and he has the support of big politicians and senior officers.
ED claims that Anwar has created a network through which illegal recovery is made on every bottle of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh.