Guwahati: The Enforcement Directorate conducted new raids at roughly 40 locations across the nation on Friday as part of a money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise policy.
Searches are being undertaken at locations connected to liquor businessmen, distributors, and supply chain networks in Nellore and a few other towns in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi-NCR.
The federal agency is conducting more raids in this case after conducting initial searches at around 45 locations nationwide on September 6.
Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, and other bureaucrats have been charged in a CBI FIR that is the basis for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case of money laundering in the excise policy. The excise policy has now been reversed.
On August 19, the CBI carried up raids in the case at Sisodia’s (50) house in Delhi, the residence of Arava Gopi Krishna, a former Delhi excise commissioner and an IAS officer, as well as 19 other places in seven states and Union Territories. Sisodia is in charge of a number of departments, including education and excise in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi administration.
The agency has also been given permission by a local court to examine AAP leader and minister Satyendar Jain in the Tihar jail in relation to this matter today.