GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 4th Oct. The AAP claimed on Wednesday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) “targeted” their Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh for voicing issues related with 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.
Dinesh Singh, Sanjay Singh’s father, stated that the family is 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 AAP 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 rebutted by the AAP.
The policy was later repealed, and the lieutenant governor of Delhi asked a CBI investigation, which prompted the ED to file a case under the PMLA.
Singh asked for an investigation into the charges leveled against the Adani Group.
Hindenburg Research, a US-based consultancy, claimed that the Adani Group engaged in flagrant stock manipulation and accounting fraud.
All charges have been refuted by the Adani Group.
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