New Delhi: The ED has arrested one other businessman, Amit Arora, in reference to its cash laundering probe within the Delhi excise coverage case, official sources stated Wednesday.

Arora is director of Buddy Retail Pvt Limited positioned in Gurugram. This is the sixth arrest on this case by the ED.

Arora was arrested final evening underneath the legal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they stated.

He is anticipated to be produced earlier than a neighborhood courtroom the place the company will search his custody, the sources stated.

The Enforcement Directorate case stems from a CBI FIR.

The CBI in a just lately filed chargesheet within the case claimed that Amit Arora, with two different accused, Dinesh Arora and Arjun Pandey, are “shut associates” of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and have been “actively concerned in managing and diverting the undue pecuniary benefit collected from liquor licensees” for the accused public servants.

The ED additionally filed its first chargesheet (prosecution grievance) within the case final week, naming arrested businessman Sameer Mahandru and few different entities in it.

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