AAP bribery scandal: ED alleges AAP used bribes from DJB contract for polls | India News
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday claimed that a former chief engineer of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) gave contracts to an ineligible company in exchange for bribes which were shared with Aam Aadmi Party functionaries to be used as the party’s campaign fund.
A day after searches were conducted on the premises of Bibhav Kumar, personal secretary of CM Arvind Kejriwal, and AAP treasurer N D Gupta, ED claimed that its probe into DJB had found that bribes were received by AAP functionaries and used by the party for elections.
“Investigations and digital evidence show that Jagdish Kumar Arora (ex-chief engineer of DJB) passed on bribes (received from contractors) to various persons connected with DJB, including persons connected with AAP. Bribe amounts were also passed on as election funds to AAP,” ED said in a statement.
The agency further said its probe found that the DJB contract was awarded at highly inflated rates so that bribes could be collected from the contractors from the inflated cost. “As against the contract value of Rs 38 crore, only Rs 17 crore was spent towards the contract and the remaining amount was siphoned off in guise of various fake expenses. Such fake expenses were booked for bribes and election funds,” the agency claimed.
The money laundering allegation being investigated by ED in the DJB case is based on a CBI FIR that had alleged corruption in the board for awarding contracts to NKG Infrastructure despite the company not meeting the technical eligibility.
The agency said it had, during its searches on Tuesday at various locations in Delhi, Varanasi and Chandigarh, seized “incriminating documents and digital evidence”, including Rs 1.9 crore and foreign currency equivalent to Rs 4 lakh.
ED had earlier conducted searches against DJB contractors and its officials in July and Nov last year and arrested DJB engineer Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal on Jan 31. Both are in ED custody till Feb 10. Further investigation is in progress.
As reported by TOI, Kumar and Gupta have been questioned earlier by the agency in connection with Delhi’s excise policy scam and related money laundering case. While Gupta had recorded his statement before ED on Dec 9, the agency had questioned Kumar in Feb last year on the alleged involvement of AAP leaders in Rs 100 crore bribes paid by the liquor cartel.
Kumar was also quizzed about thepeople meeting the CM during the period of the scam and about ‘missing’ mobile phones.
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday claimed that a former chief engineer of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) gave contracts to an ineligible company in exchange for bribes which were shared with Aam Aadmi Party functionaries to be used as the party’s campaign fund.
A day after searches were conducted on the premises of Bibhav Kumar, personal secretary of CM Arvind Kejriwal, and AAP treasurer N D Gupta, ED claimed that its probe into DJB had found that bribes were received by AAP functionaries and used by the party for elections.
“Investigations and digital evidence show that Jagdish Kumar Arora (ex-chief engineer of DJB) passed on bribes (received from contractors) to various persons connected with DJB, including persons connected with AAP. Bribe amounts were also passed on as election funds to AAP,” ED said in a statement.
The agency further said its probe found that the DJB contract was awarded at highly inflated rates so that bribes could be collected from the contractors from the inflated cost. “As against the contract value of Rs 38 crore, only Rs 17 crore was spent towards the contract and the remaining amount was siphoned off in guise of various fake expenses. Such fake expenses were booked for bribes and election funds,” the agency claimed.
The money laundering allegation being investigated by ED in the DJB case is based on a CBI FIR that had alleged corruption in the board for awarding contracts to NKG Infrastructure despite the company not meeting the technical eligibility.
The agency said it had, during its searches on Tuesday at various locations in Delhi, Varanasi and Chandigarh, seized “incriminating documents and digital evidence”, including Rs 1.9 crore and foreign currency equivalent to Rs 4 lakh.
ED had earlier conducted searches against DJB contractors and its officials in July and Nov last year and arrested DJB engineer Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal on Jan 31. Both are in ED custody till Feb 10. Further investigation is in progress.
As reported by TOI, Kumar and Gupta have been questioned earlier by the agency in connection with Delhi’s excise policy scam and related money laundering case. While Gupta had recorded his statement before ED on Dec 9, the agency had questioned Kumar in Feb last year on the alleged involvement of AAP leaders in Rs 100 crore bribes paid by the liquor cartel.
Kumar was also quizzed about thepeople meeting the CM during the period of the scam and about ‘missing’ mobile phones.
A day after searches were conducted on the premises of Bibhav Kumar, personal secretary of CM Arvind Kejriwal, and AAP treasurer N D Gupta, ED claimed that its probe into DJB had found that bribes were received by AAP functionaries and used by the party for elections.
“Investigations and digital evidence show that Jagdish Kumar Arora (ex-chief engineer of DJB) passed on bribes (received from contractors) to various persons connected with DJB, including persons connected with AAP. Bribe amounts were also passed on as election funds to AAP,” ED said in a statement.
The agency further said its probe found that the DJB contract was awarded at highly inflated rates so that bribes could be collected from the contractors from the inflated cost. “As against the contract value of Rs 38 crore, only Rs 17 crore was spent towards the contract and the remaining amount was siphoned off in guise of various fake expenses. Such fake expenses were booked for bribes and election funds,” the agency claimed.
The money laundering allegation being investigated by ED in the DJB case is based on a CBI FIR that had alleged corruption in the board for awarding contracts to NKG Infrastructure despite the company not meeting the technical eligibility.
The agency said it had, during its searches on Tuesday at various locations in Delhi, Varanasi and Chandigarh, seized “incriminating documents and digital evidence”, including Rs 1.9 crore and foreign currency equivalent to Rs 4 lakh.
ED had earlier conducted searches against DJB contractors and its officials in July and Nov last year and arrested DJB engineer Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal on Jan 31. Both are in ED custody till Feb 10. Further investigation is in progress.
As reported by TOI, Kumar and Gupta have been questioned earlier by the agency in connection with Delhi’s excise policy scam and related money laundering case. While Gupta had recorded his statement before ED on Dec 9, the agency had questioned Kumar in Feb last year on the alleged involvement of AAP leaders in Rs 100 crore bribes paid by the liquor cartel.
Kumar was also quizzed about thepeople meeting the CM during the period of the scam and about ‘missing’ mobile phones.
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday claimed that a former chief engineer of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) gave contracts to an ineligible company in exchange for bribes which were shared with Aam Aadmi Party functionaries to be used as the party’s campaign fund.
A day after searches were conducted on the premises of Bibhav Kumar, personal secretary of CM Arvind Kejriwal, and AAP treasurer N D Gupta, ED claimed that its probe into DJB had found that bribes were received by AAP functionaries and used by the party for elections.
“Investigations and digital evidence show that Jagdish Kumar Arora (ex-chief engineer of DJB) passed on bribes (received from contractors) to various persons connected with DJB, including persons connected with AAP. Bribe amounts were also passed on as election funds to AAP,” ED said in a statement.
The agency further said its probe found that the DJB contract was awarded at highly inflated rates so that bribes could be collected from the contractors from the inflated cost. “As against the contract value of Rs 38 crore, only Rs 17 crore was spent towards the contract and the remaining amount was siphoned off in guise of various fake expenses. Such fake expenses were booked for bribes and election funds,” the agency claimed.
The money laundering allegation being investigated by ED in the DJB case is based on a CBI FIR that had alleged corruption in the board for awarding contracts to NKG Infrastructure despite the company not meeting the technical eligibility.
The agency said it had, during its searches on Tuesday at various locations in Delhi, Varanasi and Chandigarh, seized “incriminating documents and digital evidence”, including Rs 1.9 crore and foreign currency equivalent to Rs 4 lakh.
ED had earlier conducted searches against DJB contractors and its officials in July and Nov last year and arrested DJB engineer Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal on Jan 31. Both are in ED custody till Feb 10. Further investigation is in progress.
As reported by TOI, Kumar and Gupta have been questioned earlier by the agency in connection with Delhi’s excise policy scam and related money laundering case. While Gupta had recorded his statement before ED on Dec 9, the agency had questioned Kumar in Feb last year on the alleged involvement of AAP leaders in Rs 100 crore bribes paid by the liquor cartel.
Kumar was also quizzed about thepeople meeting the CM during the period of the scam and about ‘missing’ mobile phones.
