Results for: Money Laundering Case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has named the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as an accused in the money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy case. The Additional Solicitor General, appearing for the ED, informed the Supreme Court on Friday that a prosecution complaint is being filed and the AAP has been made an accused in the case. AAP is alleged by the ED of sending funds through hawala and distributing them in Goa through two persons handling their election campaign. The development comes a day after the ED told the Supreme Court that the AAP will be made co-accused in the money laundering case. The ED has alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demanded a bribe of 100 crores which went to the AAP for Goa election expenses.

The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its verdict on May 10 on the interim bail plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 and has been in judicial custody since then. During a hearing on May 7, the court had reserved its order on Kejriwal’s bail plea, stating that he should refrain from carrying out any official responsibilities if granted interim bail. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Kejriwal, had guaranteed that the Delhi chief minister would abstain from signing any documents pertaining to the excise policy case and also from performing official duties if released on bail.

A special judge in Delhi has extended the judicial custody of Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha and others till May 7 in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Additionally, Kavitha’s judicial custody in a related corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has also been extended till May 7.