Andhra liquor rip-off: Chargesheet mentions Ex-CM Jagan as kickback recipient

The Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) probing the alleged liquor rip-off has arrested YSRCP Lok Sabha member PV Midhun Reddy on Saturday, after grilling him for a number of hours.

In Might, the Enforcement Directorate additionally filed a cash laundering case to research the alleged liquor rip-off.

The federal probe company has filed an Enforcement Case Info Report (ECIR) below sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe alleged irregularities within the sale of liquor within the state.

From the investigation performed to this point, it was revealed that through the second half of 2019, a gathering of the house owners of the distilleries was held by Sajjala Sridhar Reddy (A- 6) at Resort Park Hyatt, Hyderabad, the cost sheet claimed. The distilleries have been informed to co-operate with the syndicate, it added.

“In the course of the assembly, the house owners have been intimidated that if they don’t accede to their proposals and no orders will probably be issued to them. Such intimidation for kickbacks by threatening them with no issuances of OFS and thereby receiving kickbacks quantities to extortion,” the chargesheet alleged.

Below the specter of lack of enterprise, a number of distilleries agreed to pay kickbacks on the fee of 12 per cent. Quickly, the share was elevated to twenty per cent of the bottom worth, it additional alleged.

Slamming the federal government for the cost sheet, in a put up on ‘X’ the YSRCP Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy stated that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu himself is on bail with respect to a case on points pertaining to liquor coverage throughout 2014 – 19, is an irrefutable proof as to why he’s stooping so low.

“The truth that he needs to nullify his case for acts throughout 2014-19 and in addition justify his coverage now for 2024- 29, he’s discovering fault with the coverage formulated by the YSRCP Authorities,” he charged.

By falsely accusing YSRCP leaders of a liquor rip-off, the present TDP-led coalition is reviving the very corrupt liquor practices that the earlier YSRCP authorities had dismantled, Jagan hit out.