Raipur. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 119 properties worth ₹121.87 crore of IAS Anil Tuteja, Anwar Dhebar, Arunpati Tripathi, Arvind Singh and Vikas Agarwal in the ₹2000 crore liquor scam case of Chhattisgarh. This includes 14 properties belong to IAS Anil Tuteja, whose value is ₹ 8.883 crore. Earlier the agency had attached assets worth ₹ 58 crores i.e. assets worth ₹ 180 crores have been attached so far. In which Anwar Dhebar’s Hotel Vennington Court is also included.
It may be mentioned that after the arrest of the said accused, the information of the chat between the businessman Anwar Dhebar and Tripathi present in the jail is being extracted by the ED. It’s learnt that some intelligence meetings also used to take place between them. There is talk of involvement of businessmen and some Congress leaders in this. The news of talking in code word has come to the fore in the chat. ED is probing it. The ED claimed that the jewelery was found from the same distiller. Apart from this, cash of Rs 20 lakh has been found from the house of one of the accused. Which the ED has mentioned in the documents.
ED’s advocate Saurabh Pandey had also said in the court last time that Arunpati (AP) Tripathi favoured his wife. He set up a company in the name of his wife. This company prepared the hologram of liquor consumed in the state. Tripathi got it paid to a company named after his wife.