From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has seized Rs 1 crore from the house of a
Delhi businessman in the national capital in the raids on more thn 35 locations in Delhi, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh in the alleged money laundering in the scrapped Delhi liquor policy .
The businessman has been called to join the investigations, the ED sources said without naming him or giving any other details. The raids were conducted after the interrogation of businessman Sameer Mahendru, the first to be arrested by the ED.
There are allegations that Arun Ramchandra Pillai, a resident of Kokapet in Hyderabad, used to collect undue pecuniary advantage from Mahendru for onward transmission to accused public servant Vijay Nair.
The ED sleuths are now collecting documentary and digital evidence to nail the money trail in the liquor scam.
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