New Delhi. Difficulties may increase for the liquor scam accused including Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal. ED has arrested a lawyer named Vinod Chauhan on charges of money laundering in the liquor scam. Vinod Chauhan is accused of transferring bribe money given by South Group, allegedly involved in the liquor scam, to the election campaign of Aam Aadmi Party during the Goa Assembly elections. Advocate Vinod Chauhan is the 18th accused to be caught by ED in the liquor scam case.
According to ED, MLC of Telangana and former CM there. Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K. Advocate Vinod Chauhan has been arrested on the statement of an employee of Kavita. Kavita’s employee had said in a statement on July 8, 2023 that she had given two bags full of money to Vinod Chauhan in the office of liquor businessman Dinesh Arora on the instructions of Abhishek Boinpalli, accused in the liquor scam. Then he also gave money in two bags to Vinod Chauhan in Todapur. It is alleged that Vinod Chauhan sent all this money to the Aam Aadmi Party for election campaign in Goa. ED has already told the court that it has traced the money trail of the liquor scam and in this case Aam Aadmi Party received a bribe amount of Rs 100 crore from South Group. Out of which Aam Aadmi Party spent Rs 45 crore in Goa Assembly elections.
So far, ED has arrested CM Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, Telangana MLC K. in the Delhi liquor scam case. Apart from Kavita, people associated with Aam Aadmi Party and liquor traders have been arrested. Many of these promises have become waived witnesses. Whereas, Sanjay Singh was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court. ED has described Arvind Kejriwal as the kingpin of the liquor scam. At the same time, about Manish Sisodia, the investigating agency says that he has played a big role in making the new liquor policy to carry out the scam.