NEW DELHI: Initiating a money laundering probe in the Delhi excise scam in which CBI has named deputy CM Manish Sisodia in its FIR, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday carried out searches at more than 30 locations across Delhi, Telangana, Maharashtra, UP, Haryana and Karnataka at the premises of suspected middlemen and liquor retailers who were alleged beneficiaries of the now-scrapped excise policy.
Sisodia is accused no. 1 among 16 named in an FIR registered by CBI on August 17 to probe Delhi's liquor licensing scam. Some top officials of the Delhi’s Excise department, including Arva Gopi Krishna, the then excise commissioner, his deputy Anand Tiwari and assistant excise commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar are the others who have been under ED’s scanner.
