Retired bureaucrat arrested by investigating agency in Chhattisgarh liquor scam case

The officer retired last year.

Raipur:

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja from Chhattisgarh in connection with a liquor scam involving money laundering in the state, official sources said on Sunday.

The federal agency on Saturday detained a 2003-batch officer from the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW)/Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) office in Raipur, where he and his son Yash Tuteja were recording the same case. statement.

The IAS officer was later detained under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is expected to appear before a magistrate seeking remand, sources said.

The officer retired last year.

The ED filed a fresh money laundering case in the alleged liquor scam after the Supreme Court recently quashed an earlier FIR based on a complaint by the Income Tax Department.

The agency shared details of the investigation into the case with the state EOW/ACB seeking to register the FIR and once they filed the FIR, the ED registered a fresh money laundering case taking the complaint into consideration.

Money was collected ‘illegally’ from ‘every bottle’ of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh, says Raipur mayor Anwar Dhebar’s brother Anwar Dhebar heads a group Liquor conglomerate engaged in “unprecedented” corruption and money laundering activities, raking in Rs 2,000 crore. The Education Department claimed that it had been unearthed.