The Economic Offence Wing of Raipur has registered a case in the alleged Rs 2050 crore liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. Apart from the officials of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand IAS and the then Excise Secretary Vinay Chaubey has also been accused in this case. The Inspector of EOW Raipur first investigated the matter on the statement of Vikas Singh, a resident of Argora police station area of Ranchi and then registered a case. Vikas Singh has accused Chhattisgarh officials including Chhattisgarh retired IAS official Anil Tuteja, Raipur Mayors brother Anwar Dhebar, Arunpati Tripathi and their syndicate of causing a loss of revenue worth billions of rupees to the Chhattisgarh government by committing the liquor scam. It has also been said in the allegations that this syndicate, in connivance with the officials of Jharkhand, changed the excise policy of Jharkhand and damaged the revenue of the government. It has also been said in the allegations that the officials of both the states together have also committed a scam in manpower supply. According to the allegations, several meetings have taken place between the officials of both the states from December 2021 to January 2022. It is noteworthy that earlier in April 2023, IAS Vinay Chaubey and Karna Satyarthi had recorded their statements in the Raipur office of ED regarding the liquor scam. ED is also investigating the Chhattisgarh liquor scam case. ED has lodged an FIR in ACB. The investigating agency found in its investigation that the scam was carried out during the tenure of the then Bhupesh government through an illegal syndicate of IAS officer Anil Tuteja, MD of Excise Department Arunpati Tripathi and businessman Anwar Dhebar. From the year 2019 to 2022, illegal liquor was sold from government liquor shops by affixing duplicate holograms, causing a loss of revenue worth crores to the government. It may be noted that in May this year, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigating the money laundering in the alleged Rs 2,161-crore liquor scam case in Chhattisgarh has attached Rs 15-crore worth properties of retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja, who was arrested on April 21. In all, the Central agency has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 205.49 crore, which also include 115 properties worth Rs 116.16 crore of another accused Anwar Dhebar, who is the brother of Raipur Mayor Aijaz Dhebar. The attached properties of Anwar Dhebar include Hotel Vennington Court in Raipur being run under the aegis of his firm A Dhebar Buildcon and a commercial building in the name of Accord Business Tower.

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