Raipur . After two years of investigation, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed the final charge sheet in the Special Court in the much talked about liquor scam of Chhattisgarh. In this final complaint report of about 29 thousand 800 pages, a total of 81 people have been made accused, claiming a scam of Rs 2800 crore. These include 22 already arrested officers, businessmen and leaders, while 59 new names have been added.

ED has claimed in the charge sheet that the liquor scam was carried out as an organized crime in Chhattisgarh. According to the investigating agency, a huge amount of the scam was invested abroad. Evidence of huge investments made in the names of relatives and family members in Dubai, Netherlands and London is also included in the charge sheet.

According to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), businessman Anwar Dhebar, ITS Arunpati Tripathi, retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja, and Soumya Chaurasia formed a syndicate to perpetrate the Excise Department scam. This syndicate identified 15 districts in the state and secured the postings of officers of their choice. The first significant posting was that of IAS officer Niranjan Das, who was appointed Commissioner. Subsequent changes to the excise policy initiated the scam.The charge sheet also alleges that the syndicate made the former Chief Minister's son, Chaitanya Baghel alias Bittu, a partner. Anwar Dhebar, Laxminarayan Bansal, KK Srivastava, and Vikas Agarwal were responsible for distributing the money. The ED has estimated the scam amount to be ₹2,800 crore, while the EOW estimates it to be ₹3,000 crore, and other agencies estimate it to be around ₹3,500 crore. The ED has

also named
several officials, businessmen, and others as accused, including Yash Tuteja, son of a retired IAS officer, businessman Laxminarayan Bansal alias Pappu, Deepak Dauri, Anurag Dwivedi, Prakash Sharma, Sohanlal Verma, Piyush Bijlani, Sanjay Dewan, Amit Singh, Naveen Kedia. They have not yet been arrested.

Companies also in the list of accused:
In the charge sheet, many companies including Bhatia Wine Merchant, Chhattisgarh Distillery, Welcome Distillery, Adeep Agrotech Pvt. Ltd., Peterson Bio Refinery, Dhillon City Mall, Top Security and Facility Management, Om Sai Beverage, Dhebar Buildcon, Prime Developers have also been made accused.

Now the trial will begin.
ED has filed the final charge sheet within the time limit as per the instructions of the Supreme Court. This includes digital evidence, bank transactions, call detail records, property related documents and statements of witnesses. Now the trial will begin in the special court, charges will be framed and after this the hearing will proceed on the basis of witnesses and evidence.