The AP government has issued orders to seize the assets of Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, the key accused in the AP liquor scam case and A1. Home Department Principal Secretary Kumar Vishwajit issued orders to this effect on Thursday. SIT officials have found that Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy purchased assets for Rs. 13 crore. He also bought some of these assets in the names of his relatives.
Home Department Principal Secretary Kumar Vishwajit issued orders to seize these assets as per the new rule. In this liquor scam till today, assets worth Rs. 120 crore have been seized. Of which 90 percent is cash. It is noteworthy that Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, who is A1 in this scam case, is himself.
However, SIT officials say that the assets belonging to Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy are more, including the GO issued today. In the first charge sheet itself, the SIT has seized assets worth Rs. 30 crore. After that, before the second chargesheet, the SIT officials seized Rs. 11 crore in cash from a farmhouse near Shamshabad, Hyderabad. Later, about Rs. 15 crore was seized from various accounts of the accused in this scam.
The SIT officials revealed that the benami assets in various companies and benami companies belonging to Raj Kasireddy were seized in large quantities. It is known that the SIT has already obtained permission from the court to confiscate assets worth about Rs. 90 crore.
During the Jagan government, thousands of people died due to J brand liquor. Lakhs of people also fell seriously ill. All these liquor sales transactions were collected in cash at shops, not in digital form. There were serious allegations and criticisms against this entire affair. In this context, the TDP promised as part of the election campaign that if it comes to power, it will investigate this.
With this, the coalition government led by Chandrababu Naidu formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on this liquor affair. In addition, former MP and former YSRCP leader Vijayasai Reddy bombed the media by saying that Raj Kasireddy was the mastermind, the doer, and the doer of this liquor scam. At such a time arrests are being made in this liquor scam.
However, Raj Kasireddy, who came to Hyderabad from Goa under a different name, was arrested by the AP police and handed over to the SIT police. In this case, retired IAS officer Dhanunjaya Reddy, former CM YS Jagan OSD Krishnamohan Reddy, and Balaji Govindappa were also arrested and interrogated by the SIT police.
