The ED raided the premises of Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav Kumar, AAP Rajya Sabha MP N D Gupta, former DJB member Shalabh Kumar, chartered accountant Pankaj Mangal, and some others as part of this investigation in February.A CBI FIR alleges that former chief engineer of DJB Jagdish Kumar Arora awarded a contract of the DJB to a company NKG Infrastructure Ltd for a total cost of Rs 38 crore even though the company “did not meet” the technical eligibility criteria, the basis of the ED case.The ED arrested Arora and a contractor named Anil Kumar Aggarwal in this case on January 31.NKG Infrastructure Ltd obtained the bid by submitting “forged” documents and Arora “was aware of the fact that the company does not meet the technical eligibility,” the agency claimed.An ED statement alleged that Arora “received” a bribe in cash and bank accounts after awarding the contract to NKG Infrastructure Ltd.and that he “passed on” this money to various persons managing the affairs at DJB, including “persons connected with AAP”.”Bribe amounts were also passed on as election funds to AAP,” it claimed.This is the second case where the federal agency has charged the AAP with taking kickbacks.It has claimed that bribe money from the scrapped excise policy of 2021-22 was used by the Arvind Kejriwal-led party for campaigning in the Goa assembly elections.The agency said that the DJB contract was awarded at “highly inflated rates” so that the bribes could be collected from the contractors.”As against the contract value of Rs 38 crore, only about Rs 17 crore was spent towards the contract and the remaining amounts were siphoned off in guise of various fake expenses.””Such fake expenses were booked for bribes and election funds,” the ED claimed.Delhi minister Atishi had claimed in a press briefing after the raids that the officials of the agency just sat in the living room of Bibhav Kumar and took with them only two Gmail account downloads and three family phones.
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