ED takes custody of AAP’s Vijay Nair

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken into custody the Aam Aadmi Party’s communication in-charge Vijay Nair and businessman Abhishek Boinpally in connection with the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam for questioning, sources said on Monday.
The federal agency will produce both Nair and Boinpally before a special court seeking their remand custody. The ED has taken both the accused into custody from Tihar jail. After getting the custody of both accused, the ED will question them in connection with its ongoing probe into Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 money laundering case.
Nair was arrested on September 27 by the Central Bureau of Investigation for his alleged role in irregularities pertaining to the Delhi government’s excise policy. An FIR was lodged after LG VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe.
The CBI has alleged that Nair was involved in meeting the other co-accused and liquor manufacturers as well as distributors at various hotels in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi for arranging “ill-gotten money through hawala operators”.
The CBI investigation has also revealed that Boinpally was part of the meetings with the other accused persons in the case, including liquor businessmen, in Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
The central agency had told a court that Boinpally was part of the conspiracy to launder money along with another accused, liquor businessman Sameer Mahendru, who has already been arrested and is currently lodged in Tihar jail.
Now, ED will question both Nair and Bonipally in the case. The agency’s action came days after it arrested two businessmen among Pharma company head Sharath Chandra Reddy.