Assets seized in connection with Chhattisgarh’s liquor scam

Assets worth more than Rs. 121 crore have been attached in Chhattisgarh’s liquor scam-linked money laundering case.

They include assets of Anwar Dhebar, who is the elder brother of Raipur’s Mayor Aijaz Dhebar; of a 2003 batch IAS officer named Anil Tuteja; of Arun Pati Tripathi, former MD of Chhattisgarh State Marketing Corporation Ltd. and of others. Out of these, assets of Anwar Dhebar is worth Rs.98.78 crore.

Till now Anwar Dhebar, Tripathi and two others have already been arrested by the ED in this alleged liquor scam. The ED had stated that money was illegally collected for every bottle of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh and the evidence of "unprecedented" corruption and money laundering of Rs. 2,000 crore by an alcohol syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar had been found.