The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has in its supplementary chargesheet filed before a Delhi court alleged that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was the “kingpin” and “key conspirator” in hatching the now-scrapped excise policy in collusion with other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.
Sources said the agency in the chargesheet, which was filed on Tuesday, named the chief minister and the AAP as accused in the case. The court has taken cognisance of the chargesheet and issued a production warrant on the jailed Kejriwal for July 12.
It was the seventh supplementary chargesheet filed by the agency in the case.
The ED in the latest chargesheet alleged: “Arvind Kejriwal has directly used part of these proceeds of crime personally by making Chanpreet Singh (another accused in the case) pay for his stay and event at the Grand Hyatt, Goa.”
It added that Kejriwal also “mingled” these proceeds of crime with the funds of the Delhi government.
Responding to the chargesheet, the AAP said the BJP-led government at the Centre was hatching a “big conspiracy” against the party.
AAP minister Saurabh Bharadwaj reiterated the party’s demand for a fair probe into electoral bonds given to the BJP by firms of people who have turned approvers in the liquor policy case.
BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj told reporters on Wednesday: “The chargesheet has proved that Kejriwal is the kingpin in the liquor scam and took kickbacks worth ₹100 crore. Out of this ₹100 crore, ₹45 crore was used by the AAP in the Goa elections.”
Delhi AAP MLA, a municipal councillor and former minister Raaj Kumar Anand joined the BJP on Thursday.