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The Enforcement Directorate raided AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s home in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy, officials said. Premises of some others connected to the case are also being covered, they said.
The ED had earlier questioned members of the staff and those linked to the 51-year-old Rajya Sabha MP.
The ED had mentioned Singh’s name in its charge sheet. It stated that Dinesh Arora, a middleman, had said he had met Singh during a party in his restaurant Unplugged Courtyard. In 2020, it said, Singh requested him to ask restaurant owners to generate funds for the Aam Aadmi Party for the Delhi assembly elections. He said he gave a cheque of Rs 82 lakh for the funds.
AAP alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has “targeted” its Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh as he raised issues related to the Adani Group in Parliament. The party was reacting to the ED raids on the premises of Singh in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said.
“Sanjay Singh kept on raising questions on the issue of Adani and this is why the raids are being conducted at his residence. The central agencies found nothing earlier and won’t find anything today either. First, they conducted raids at the residence of some journalists yesterday and today, raids conducted at Sanjay Singh’s residence,” AAP spokesperson Reena Gupta said. Sanjay Singh’s father Dinesh Singh said they are cooperating with the ED.
“The ED is doing their job. I don’t know the exact time but around 7.30 am they came to conduct raids…I told ED officials they can conduct raids until late at night, we don’t want them to visit again and again,” he said. It is alleged that the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.
On ED raids at the residence of AAP MP Sanjay Singh, Delhi minister & AAP leader Atishi told ANI , “…They have put a hundred officers of ED and CBI, arrested and tortured people. But till now the central government and their agencies are not able to prove any corruption of even a rupee. This shows that the BJP is afraid of AAP. It shows that PM Modi knows in the upcoming Lok Sabha election they are going to lose… In the fear of this defeat, they are conducting raids on the leaders of the AAP party, journalists… I can say this with confidence that they are not going to get even a penny of corruption from Sanjay Singh.”
