K Kavitha used land deals to recoup money for AAP’s campaign: CBI in chargesheet
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its supplementary chargesheet against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, has stated.
That she was one of the main conspirators behind the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. As per the central probe agency, Kavitha was involved in the manipulation and tweaking of the liquor policy.
In the chargesheet, the probe agency stated that Kavita was not only involved in the collection of ill-gotten money of Rs 100 crore but also in transferring the funds to Goa through Hawala.
The CBI cited the statements of TDP MP Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy and his son Raghav Magunta while establishing Kavitha’s role in the case.
Through the statements, the CBI established that the TDP MP met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in March 2021 at his office and requested his support in the liquor business. After which, as per the CBI, Kejriwal, while assuring support to Magunta Reddy, asked him to contact K. Kavitha.
According to the CBI, Kejriwal also told Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy to provide monetary funding to the Aam Aadmi Party.
Further in the chargesheet, it has been revealed that her co-accused, Abhishek Boinpally, and PA Ashok Kaushik were also involved in the transfer of the money to Goa through Hwaala.
The accused, Arvind Kumar Singh, serving as the Production Controller-Cum-Commercial Head of India Ahead News, owned by Mootha Gautham and Abhishek Boinpally, an associate of K Kavitha, acted as a conduit for the South Group, the CBI claimed. He played a major role in transferring Rs 7.10 crore of illicit money from Delhi to Goa through the Hawala Channel.
The CBI has stated that K Kavitha used the wholesale liquor licence “(L-1) holder M/s Indo Spirits” as a vehicle to recoup the upfront money of Rs. 100 crores paid by her to Aam Aadmi Party.
According to the CBI, Kavitha recouped the payment of upfront money by obtaining Rs 14 crore under the guise of a land deal from the company of Sarath Chandra Reddy. Despite the Agreement of Sale stipulating the payment of Rs 14 crore by November 2021, the lands were never transferred by Kavitha. The value of the land in the draft agreement was Rs 14 crore, but within one day, the value was doubled to Rs 28 crore. The CBI states that this land deal was merely a pretext for K. Kavitha, with the connivance of her co-accused CA Butchibabu Gorantla Chandra Reddy, to recoup the upfront money paid to the Aam Aadmi Party.