ED Arrested Retired IAS Officer Anil Tuteja In Chhattisgarh Liquor ScamNew Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested retired IAS official Anil Tuteja in the money laundering case revolving around the alleged Chhattisgarh liquor scam .
The IAS officer was later taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) while his son was let off.
Tuteja is the first arrest that the probe agency has made after registering the new money laundering case.
There are a total accused 72 accused in this case and ED has pegged Chhattisgarh excise scam at Rs 2061 crores.
On April 10, the ED had filed a fresh money laundering case in the alleged excise scam in the Chhattisgarh.
ED Arrested Retired IAS Officer Anil Tuteja In Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested retired IAS official Anil Tuteja in the money laundering case revolving around the alleged Chhattisgarh liquor scam . Tuteja will be produced before the court today.
ED had detained the 2003 batch officer from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW)/Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) office in Raipur on Saturday where the bureaucrat and his son Yash Tuteja had gone to record their statement in the same case. The IAS officer was later taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) while his son was let off.
Tuteja is the first arrest that the probe agency has made after registering the new money laundering case. There are a total accused 72 accused in this case and ED has pegged Chhattisgarh excise scam at Rs 2061 crores.
On April 10, the ED had filed a fresh money laundering case in the alleged excise scam in the Chhattisgarh. The federal probe agency's new case stems from the Chhattisgarh EOW FIR which was filed in Jan 2024
This development had taken place a day after the Supreme Court has quashed the money laundering probe which was initiated by ED on the Income Tax complaint, sources told Times Now.
Money was "illegally" collected from "every" bottle of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh and evidence of "unprecedented" corruption and money laundering of over Rs 2,000 crore generated by an alcohol syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar, the elder brother of Raipur Mayor Anwar Dhebar, has been unearthed, the ED had alleged.
