A Delhi court sent Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on remand till 13 March in connection with its ongoing probe in the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 money laundering case.
Pillai was arrested late on Monday night following his day-long questioning by the ED officials in the case here in the national capital. The agency has so far arrested 11 persons in the case. Pillai’s arrest comes close on the heels of the former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia’s arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case.
He is among the other accused named in the case along with Manish Sisodia, the then Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Anand Tiwari and Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar.
Manoj Rai, a former employee of Pernod Ricard; Amandeep Dhal, director of Brindco Sales; authorised signatories of Mahadev Liquors Sunny Marwah and Arjun Pandey are some more accused in the case.