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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Special Court, Vijayawada, connected Friday extended judicial remand to 9 accused successful the liquor scam case, including Anil Chokhara, a notorious economical offender, till December 19.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case, produced Anil Chokhara, accused No.49, successful the ACB Special Court. It accused him of operating astir 35 ammunition companies and resorting to assorted economical offences.
The SIT constabulary arrested Anil Chokhara, a autochthonal of Bijay Nagar successful Rajasthan, astatine Navi Mumbai successful November and brought him to A.P.
The accused had cases registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Economic Offences Wing (EOW). He had earlier been arrested connected charges of defrauding a bank, and engagement successful fraud, forgery and different offences and was connected conditional bail, the probe officers said.
'’The Modus Operandi (MO) of the accused is to place radical successful fiscal distress and connection them assistance and successful instrumentality cod their slope and different idiosyncratic details. He past opens slope accounts utilizing their names, telephone numbers, PAN and different details. He uses these accounts for assorted economical offences, including wealth laundering,'’ the investigators said.
The accused besides utilized aggregate SIM cards, and slope accounts to evade probe agencies. “It has been recovered during the probe that Anil Chokhara played a cardinal relation successful the A.P. liquor scam done his ammunition companies and resorted to a immense fraud,” they claimed.
The accused colluded with A1 Raj Kessireddy, A7 Muppidi Avinash Reddy and others, and diverted the wealth received from AP State Beverages Corporation Limited (APSBCL), and routed it to immoderate officers and different bigwigs successful the liquor syndicate, they alleged.
Police Commissioner S.V. Rajashekar Babu, who is monitoring the SIT proble, told The Hindu that Anil Chokhara transferred astir ₹77 crore from Leela Distilleries Private Limited, Adan Distilleries and SPY Agro Industries Limited to Nysna Multi Ventures, Olwick and Kripati Enterprises and Vishal Enterprises, floated by him.
Meanwhile, during the four-day constabulary custody earlier, the SIT officials grilled Anil Chokara connected his links with the premier accused successful the case. They besides questioned him astir the alleged ammunition companies, and the channelling of wealth to immoderate of the accused successful the liquor syndicate.
