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The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) connected Thursday (November 13, 2025) said that it has provisionally attached assets worthy ₹61.2 crore belonging to Chaitanya Baghel – the lad of erstwhile Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and elder Congress person Bhupesh Baghel – who is facing wealth laundering probe linked to the alleged liquor scam successful the State.
In a connection issued by the Raipur Zonal Office of the ED, the bureau claimed that the database of attached assets see immovable properties successful the signifier of 364 pieces of residential plots and cultivation lands worthy ₹59.96 crore. It added that the movable properties successful the signifier of slope balances and fixed deposits worthy ₹1.24 crore were besides attached.
The predicate offence is simply a lawsuit nether Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which pertains to the alleged scam that purportedly took spot erstwhile the State was being ruled by the Congress with Mr. Bhupesh Baghel arsenic the Chief Minister.
The constabulary probe has revealed that Chhattisgarh liquor scam resulted successful a monolithic nonaccomplishment to the State exchequer and filled the pockets of the beneficiaries with Proceeds of Crime (POC) generated by the committee of scheduled offences, worthy much than ₹2500 crore.
On the wealth laundering space and the circumstantial relation of Mr. Chaitanya Baghel, who has been successful jailhouse since July this year, the ED connection noted that “Chaitanya Baghel, lad of Bhupesh Baghel, was positioned astatine the apex of the liquor syndicate”.
“His presumption arsenic the Chief Minister’s lad made him the controller and eventual authorization of the liquor syndicate. He was liable for maintaining the hisab (accounts) of each illicit funds collected by the syndicate,” it added.
According to the ED investigation, the property merchandise further established that Mr. Chaitanya Baghel was a recipient of proceeds of transgression (POC), which helium layered done his existent property concern and projected arsenic untainted assets. According to the ED, Chaitanya Baghel utilised the POC generated from the liquor scam for the improvement of his existent property project, “Vitthal Green,” nether his proprietorship concern, M/s Baghel Developers.
Responding to the development, Raipur Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla said that enactment was malicious arsenic ancestral spot was being attached. “The radical of Chhattisgarh volition ne'er forgive this,” helium said.
