MOHALI/AMRITSAR: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Tuesday morning carried out simultaneous raids at Mohali Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Kulwant Singh’s Sector-71 house, his office, and the business premises of his partners in Sohana and Amritsar in an alleged drug money laundering case.
When the ED swooped down on the house of the Mohali legislator at 6am accompanied by the CRPF, he was away to Delhi.His two sons were questioned till he joined investigations in the afternoon on his return. Exiting his car to enter his house, he merely said, “I have nothing to say about this matter.”
Sources in ED said that a search was also conducted at the office of the MLA’s chartered accountant in Chandigarh as well as a house in the Amritsar’s Ranjit Avenue area on Tuesday early morning, which reportedly belonged to an influential owner of a wine group.
Just a day prior to this, Delhi chief minister and party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal was issued summons by ED in connection with the Delhi excise policy ‘scam’.
According to sources in ED, the MLA’s link with the alleged drug cartel money being used in real estate emerged following the arrest of drug lord Akshay Chhabra by NCB from Ludhiana last year.
After the agency interrogated Chhabra last year, NCB Crime recovered 34.47 kg heroin, 5.47 kg morphine, 557 gram opium and 23.64 kg suspected narcotic powder, and arrested 16 people.
When the ED swooped down on the house of the Mohali legislator at 6am accompanied by the CRPF, he was away to Delhi.His two sons were questioned till he joined investigations in the afternoon on his return. Exiting his car to enter his house, he merely said, “I have nothing to say about this matter.”
Sources in ED said that a search was also conducted at the office of the MLA’s chartered accountant in Chandigarh as well as a house in the Amritsar’s Ranjit Avenue area on Tuesday early morning, which reportedly belonged to an influential owner of a wine group.
Just a day prior to this, Delhi chief minister and party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal was issued summons by ED in connection with the Delhi excise policy ‘scam’.
According to sources in ED, the MLA’s link with the alleged drug cartel money being used in real estate emerged following the arrest of drug lord Akshay Chhabra by NCB from Ludhiana last year.
After the agency interrogated Chhabra last year, NCB Crime recovered 34.47 kg heroin, 5.47 kg morphine, 557 gram opium and 23.64 kg suspected narcotic powder, and arrested 16 people.
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