K Kavitha’s ‘Rs 100 crore-for-favours deal’ with top AAP leaders: Probe agency

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha conspired.

With top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, for getting favours in the liquor policy, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has claimed in its investigation.

In exchange for these “favours”, K Kavitha allegedly paid Rs 100 crore to the AAP leaders, the probe agency said. Illegal funds, in the form of kickbacks from wholesalers, were generated for the AAP by “acts of corruption and conspiracy”, the ED alleged.

To generate more profit, K Kavitha and her associates were to recover the proceeds of the crime paid in advance to AAP.

The 45-year-old BRS leader was arrested by the ED in Hyderabad on Saturday, March 16, following searches at her Hyderabad home earlier that day. She was produced before a special PMLA court the next day, which sent her to ED custody until March 23.

So far, the ED has conducted searches on 245 locations across the country including Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and other places in the Delhi liquor policy case.

Fifteen persons, including AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Vijay Nair have been arrested in the case so far.

The ED has filed one prosecution complaint and 5 supplementary complaints in the case.

Out of the procees of crime generated in the case, assets worth Rs 128.79 crore have been traced so far, the probe agency said on Monday.