The Enforcement Directorate or ED raided as many as 12 premises in Delhi and the National Capital Region pertaining to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal secretary and other people linked to the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP in a money laundering case.
The raided locations included premises of Kejriwal’s personal secretary Bibhav Kumar, former Delhi Jal Board or DJB member Shalabh Kumar, and AAP treasurer and Rajya Sabha member ND Gupta, apart from some others.
These people faced action days after Kejriwal ducked the probe agency’s fifth summons to appear for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.
The central agency, referring to the complaints by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI and the Delhi Government’s Anti-Corruption Branch or ACB, is probing the alleged irregularities in the tendering process of the Delhi Jal Board or DJB.
The DJB and its then Chief Engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora is accused of providing “undue advantage” to a company – NKG Infrastructure Limited – while awarding it the tender by finalising an illegal deal worth Rs 38 crore for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of electromagnetic flow metres despite not meeting the technical eligibility.
The ED put Arora and DJB contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal behind the bars under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 in the DJB corruption case on January 31.
As per the complaint, the NKG Infrastructure Ltd subcontracted the work to Anil Kumar Aggarwal’s proprietorship firm Integral Screws Limited. Aggarwal allegedly transferred the bribe amount of Rs 3 crore to Arora through cash and bank accounts on receipt of funds.
To transfer the bribe amounts, the accused used bank accounts of the aides of Arora and their relatives.
The ED seized multiple incriminating files and evidence during its raid in the case on July 24 and November 17 last year.
