Amit Arora, the Director of Buddy Retail Pvt Ltd, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam money laundering case, has been granted two weeks interim bail for wife's treatment.
The ARSC team of the Crime Branch conducted the raid at a high-end society in Mumbai and arrested the accused, Sona Bansal, from there. Her husband, Atul Bansal, was however not found there and his whereabouts are being ascertained, officials said.
According to the police statement, on January 11, the police received information that two self-styled political activists were demanding money from people on the promise of arranging government jobs and providing fake appointment orders.
ED had earlier issued a Provisional Attachment Order (PAO) attaching proceeds of crime worth Rs 152.5 crore and filed a Prosecution Complaint under PMLA. Recently, searches were conducted in Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Pune on specific inputs.
The investigation by ED revealed that acts of corruption and conspiracy in the formulation and implementation of Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 led to the loss of at least Rs 2,873 crore to the government exchequer.
Inside the shop, former Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aid Arpita Mukherjee can be seen standing surrounded by money and gold which were seized by the central agencies.
The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday arrested Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh in connection with the teachers' recruitment scam, Informed Sources.