“The ED’s investigation is based on an FIR registered by EOW/ACB, Raipur, revealed that a liquor syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar and Anil Tuteja (Retd. IAS) — in connivance with senior State officials, distillery owners, and private entities — systematically manipulated the Chhattisgarh excise machinery between 2019 and 2023 to generate Proceeds of Crime exceeding Rs. 2,883 Crore through artificial inflation of liquor procurement rates, clandestine manufacture of unaccounted liquor, and extraction of commissions through FL-10A licences granted to favoured entities,” the ED said in a statement
