“Money manager” of the AAP’s Goa electoral fund detained and taken to the ED

In the money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy, the ED has detained Chanpreet Singh, who was purportedly managing AAP funding during the Goa assembly elections, according to official sources on Monday. In the now-deleted policy case, this is the 17th arrest the ED has made. Singh was placed under ED remand till April 18.

In a related case, Chanpreet had already been taken into custody by the CBI. The CBI’s FIR is the basis for the money laundering case. According to sources, Chanpreet worked for the AAP as a “freelance” employee from May or June 2021 until March 2022.

The Delhi office of the AAP paid for the poll expenses of one of its candidates in the 2022 Goa Assembly elections, according to a statement acquired by the ED in support of its detention plea. The AAP’s Goa election campaign was funded, according to the ED, using 45 crore rupees from the crime’s gains.

The Enforcement Department (ED) had earlier claimed that Arvind Kejriwal was given proof of hawala payments totaling around Rs 45 crore when he was being questioned in custody. Call detail records and I-T seized data of a hawala business in Goa are purportedly proof of this.