ED alleges facetime call between CM Arvind Kejriwal and accused Sameer Mahendru

A local court Thursday took cognisance of the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with its money laundering probe into the Delhi government's now-scrapped liquor policy.

The federal agency has alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) used the money raised from the Delhi liquor scam to fund the Goa election campaign.

"Investigation of the trail of this kickback so far has revealed that part of these funds was used in the election campaign of the AAP," the agency has alleged in its supplementary chargesheet.


The charge sheet mentions an alleged call between Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Indospirits owner Sameer Mahendru, an accused in the case, wherein Kejriwal allegedly asked him to carry on working with AAP communication's incharge Vijay Nair.

The agency has alleged that Nair had arranged a meeting between Sameer Mahendru and Kejriwal over facetime where Kejriwal allegedly told the former that "Vijay is his boy and that Sameer should trust him and carry on with him." Kejriwal, however, described the allegations as "fiction".

The agency has further alleged that Nair, on behalf of AAP, received kickbacks of over '100 crore from a group comprising YSRCP MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Aurobindo Pharma director P Sarath Chandra Reddy, Telangana Chief Minister KCR's daughter, Kavitha Kalvakuntla.

The charge sheet alleges that the Delhi Excise policy, 2021-22 was created by top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to "continuously generate and channel illegal funds to themselves".