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Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 Money Laundering A court in Delhi sent the director of an advertising company to ED on Thursday. Rajesh Joshi, director of Rath Productions Media Pvt Ltd, was brought before special judge MK Nagpal, who remanded him in custody for questioning until February 13. Joshi was arrested by the ED on Wednesday.
The agency sought his 10-day detention and said it would have to confront him along with other suspects in the case to uncover the larger conspiracy. It said the links of the advertising firm’s promoter in case of alleged ‘kickback’ for the 2022 Goa elections are under the agency’s scanner.
The ED alleged in an indictment filed with the court that part of the alleged Rs 100 crore bribe in the scrapped Delhi excise policy had been used in the election campaign of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party in Goa in 2022. It alleged that of a “bribe amount of Rs 100 crore made by a body called ‘South Group’ of liquor businessmen and politicians, Rs 30 crore was “handled” by another accused Dinesh Arora in “complicity” with another accused Abhishek. Finished.
Rath Productions, the ED said, was “an entity engaged by AAP for advertising and other work related to Goa’s election campaign for the 2022 parliamentary elections.”
Following the money trail of part of this amount, Vijay Nair (AAP Communications Officer arrested in the first case) has been discovered to be making cash payments for campaign related works through Rath Productions and through individuals. The ED has alleged in its second charge filed in the case that a money trail for cash transactions worth Rs 70 lakh has been paid so far, which is related to the timing of the acquisition of these funds. The ED’s money laundering case stems from a CBI FIR. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other government excise officials were named as accused in the CBI and ED complaints.
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