New Delhi: At least ₹776 crore of the ₹2,161 crore collected within the Chhattisgarh liquor rip-off by Anwar Dhebar, the prime accused and brother of Raipur mayor Aijaz Dhebar, went to “political executives” and he determined to duplicate the identical corruption mannequin in Jharkhand as properly, however “abruptly” stopped when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began wanting into the irregularities.

The company made these revelations in its cost sheet filed on Tuesday within the Chhattisgarh liquor rip-off, naming Anwar Dhebar, Arunpati Tripathi, former managing director of Chhattisgarh State Marketing Corporation Limited (CSMCL), liquor businessman Trilok Singh Dhillon, hotelier Nitesh Purohit and an aide of Anwar Dhebar , Arvind Singh. The accused had been arrested in May and June this yr.

Revealing how the proceeds of crime, ₹2,161 crore, had been utilised, ED cost sheet says the accused individuals collected commissions/bribes in 4 other ways, outlined as Part A (bribes collected from distillers per case of liquor procured from them by CSMCL), Part-B (sale of unaccounted nation liquor off the books ) and Part-C (bribes taken from distillers to permit them to kind a cartel and have mounted market share). A fourth technique used to gather bribes was from FL-10A (overseas liquor) licence holders.

While ₹496 crore was collected in Part-A, ₹1173 crore was collected in Part-B, ₹280 in Part-C, and ₹211 from FL-10A holders.

“The Part-A and Part-C commissions were entirely handled by Anwar Dhebar who transferred the entire collection to the political executives of the state (Chhattisgarh). Thus, an amount of (over) ₹776 crore in the form of Part-A and Part-C collection went to these political executives through Anwar Dhebar and Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Anil Tuteja,” the ED cost sheet says. HT has accessed particulars of the cost sheet.

The company stated Anwar Dhebar has not disclosed names of the beneficiaries of the ₹776 crores. “But many incriminating documents and records have been received from the Income Tax department and investigation to trace these proceeds of crime worth ₹776 crore is going on,” it added.

The company stated that Anwar Dhebar moved ₹80-100 crore in money to Delhi and Mumbai by hawala and paid “large amounts of cash to the ruling party in the state for electioneering.”

Commenting on Anwar Dhebar’s plans to duplicate the identical mannequin in Jharkhand, the ED cost sheet reveals that “following the grand success of his conspiracy in Chhattisgarh, he decided to implement the Chhattisgarh model of Part-A and Part-B (collection) in Jharkhand too and successfully ran it for three to four months till it was abruptly ended due to ED action”.

“The distillers, FL-10 (A) licensees , (and) manpower suppliers of Chhattisgarh in their respective statements have admitted to these facts and stated that they were coerced by Anwar Dhebar and his associates to work in Jharkhand also,” ED’s cost sheet claimed.

The anti-money laundering probe company is already investigating this side in coordination with its Ranchi workplace and has sought particulars from the Jharkhand excise division.

Citing the assertion of Naveen Kedia of Chhattisgarh Distillers Ltd, ED has stated that Anwar Dhebar (a personal individual) “was like an excise minister only”.

It added that as an alternative of stopping such malpractices, the excise division of Chhattisgarh was in truth “actively encouraging” the identical.

ED has stated that a big a part of the proceeds of crime remains to be to be traced .

Investigations have revealed that giant quantities had been transferred to the UAE, the Netherlands and many others by hawala operators and big quantity of benami property have been created overseas, the company stated.

“ED will work with foreign investigative agencies to soon identify and get hold of these fugitives,” it added.