Cheating in the name of saving from ED, fraud arrested on complaint of excise officer

Raipur. The police have arrested two thugs from Amravati (Maharashtra), who extorted lakhs of rupees from about 12 officers of the Excise Department on the pretext of saving them from the Enforcement Directorate. Let us tell you that the recovery was made from the officers on the pretext of saving them from the action of the ED, which is probing the liquor scam of two thousand crores. Both of them became active when the ED was calling the excise officers to its office. After this, he took many officers under his guise and recovered.

According to the information, the thugs had struck a deal with some officers for Rs 50 lakh each on the pretext of saving them from ED action and allegedly getting them to meet the director. Five lakh rupees were collected as advance.

Excise Additional Commissioner Rakesh Mandavi had lodged the report at Rakhi police station. He told in the complaint that Ashwani Bhatia of Amravati and his partner called themselves the Liaisoners of Maharashtra. Claimed to the officers that he is identified with the director of ED and other officers. In the ongoing investigation of Excise Gadgadi in the state, action can be saved. Some people came under the guise and gave about five lakh rupees as advance. It is being told that the accused were demanding more money. The police have registered a case of blackmailing and fraud against both the accused.