Manish Sisodia named in the CBI's FIR in the Delhi excise scam case
Op IndiaThe Central Bureau of Investigation listed 15 accused including Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in an FIR on Friday 13th August 2022 following hours of raids into the alleged excise fraud. Excise officials, liquor company executives, dealers along with unknown public servants & private persons have too been booked in the case pic.twitter.com/44L12CmHNn — ANI August 19, 2022 The FIR says, “Shri Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, GNCTD of Delhi, Shri Arva Gopi Krishna, the then Commissioner, GNCTD of Delhi., Shri Anand Tiwari, the then Deputy Commissioner, GNCTD Of Delhi, and Shri Pankaj Bhatnagar, Assistant Commissioner, GNCTD of Delhi were instrumental in recommending and taking decisions pertaining to excise policy for the year 2021-22 without the approval of competent authority with an intention to extend undue favors to the licensees post tender.” It further says, “Shri Vijay Nair, Former CEO of M/s. In furtherance to this, they are showing false entries in their books of accounts to keep their record straight.” The CBI cited its sources and said in the FIR, “Shri Amit Arora, Shri Dinesh Arora, and Shri Arjun Pandey are close associates of Shri Manish Sisodia and are actively involved in managing and diverting the undue pecuniary advantage collected from Liquor Licenses to accused public servants. Shri Arun Ramchandra Pillai used to collect undue pecuniary advantage from Shri Sameer Mahendru, MD, M/s Indospirit for onward transmission to the accused public servant through Shri Vijay Nair. The list of the accused includes deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, former excise commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, former excise deputy commissioner Anand Tiwari, Assistant Excise Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar, former CEO of the OML entertainment and events company Vijay Nair, ex-employee of M/s Pernod Recard Manoj Rai, Director of M/s Brindco Sales Pvt.