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In a major setback for Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, the Enforcement Directorate has accused AAP of “using” a part of the Rs 100 crore kickbacks allegedly received from the ‘south group’ liquor lobby to meet its expenditure for the Goa Assembly poll campaign in 2022. It said the money laundering investigation launched by it in this case last year …

HYDERABAD: A CBI court in New Delhi on Thursday denied bail to five Delhi liquor scam accused including top businessman from Hyderbad Sarath Chandra Reddy of pharma giant Aurobindo and Abhishek Boinpally, as the allegations made against them are quite serious and relate to commission of an economic offence of money-laundering. The order which has more than once referred to …

Rajesh Joshi, the owner of Chariot Production Media Pvt Ltd, was on Thursday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy. Joshi was placed under arrest under the sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and his links with regard to alleged diversion of ‘kickbacks’ for the …

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top anti-money laundering investigator said Wednesday that officials from previous administrations from 2012 to 2018 spent about $300 million in government money to purchase spyware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group. Nieto said the amounts paid, and the way they were paid, suggested government corruption in an already questionable telephone tapping program that targeted journalists, …