Delhi Liquor Police Scam- ED arrests businessman Dinesh Arora

New Delhi, July 7

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested businessman Dinesh Arora in connection the Delhi excise policy case. This is the 13th arrest in the case by the ED.

The ED has filed five chargesheets, including against former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. In one of the chargesheets, Arora was mentioned as a mediator between the ‘South group’ and the Aam Aadmi Party.

The ED's investigation shows that the accused persons entered into a criminal conspiracy when the excise policy was still under formulation from April 2020 to get undue benefits by circumventing provisions of the policy and to achieve the illegal objective of cartelisation between liquor manufacturers, wholesalers and retail vendors. 

A sum of around Rs 20-30 crore was arranged by businessman Abhishek Boinpally at the behest of some liquor manufacturers belonging to South (India) and this amount was transferred or transmitted by him through accused Arora to AAP communications in-charge Vijay Nair and his associates during the period between July and September 2021 in cash using hawala channels, investigators have found out during the probe. 

The case is being probed by the CBI too where Arora has been made an approver in the case before a Delhi court.