ED arrests I-PAC director and co-founder

NEW DELHI: Ten days aft ED carried retired searches astatine respective premises successful Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai connected officials of I-PAC, a governmental consultancy steadfast whose clients see Trinamool and DMK, the bureau connected Monday arrested 1 of its directors and co-founder, Vinesh Chandel.

He volition beryllium produced earlier a peculiar tribunal successful Delhi for custodial interrogation.

Chandel's apprehension is successful transportation with ED's ongoing probe against I-PAC successful a money-laundering lawsuit linked to an alleged ember scam successful the poll-bound West Bengal. On April 2, EC had searched the premises of Vijay Nair, ex-communication advisor of AAP and 1 of the accused successful the Delhi liquor scam. Sources said Vijay Nair's dealings with I-PAC are nether probe and definite transactions are being probed with regards to payments made to the governmental consultancy steadfast successful the past.