Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam Case: ED attached property worth more than Rs 1000 crore in Chhattisgarh liquor scam case, made four other people accused

New Delhi. In Chhattisgarh’s liquor scam case, the Enforcement Directorate has taken major action and attached properties worth more than Rs 1000 crore. The attacked properties include several properties in Raipur and a luxury hotel in Goa. ED may also seize some other properties in future. At the same time, ED has also filed the sixth supplementary prosecution complaint in this case in the Special PMLA Court, Raipur. In this supplementary chargesheet, four more people have been named as accused namely Vijay Bhatia, T. Bhuneshwar Rao, Prabir Sharma and Nikhil Chandrakar.

ED alleges that businessman Vijay Bhatia had 52.5 percent stake in Om Sai Beverages which was benami. Prabir Sharma is accused of diverting crores of rupees of cash on behalf of the syndicate. According to ED, this syndicate was mainly being run by Anwar Dhebar and retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja. While the suspicious role of some other senior officials and distillery operators and private companies has also come to light. ED has earlier attached the immovable properties of Vikas Aggarwal and Anwar Dhebar under a provisional attachment order. Vikas Aggarwal looked after the financial functioning of this syndicate. Several plots of Dhebar City Homes located in Raipur and five properties purchased through various shell companies have been seized.

Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Raipur Zonal Office, has issued three Provisional Attachment Orders (PAOs) on 28.05.2026 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, provisionally attaching properties with a deed value of Rs 200 Crore and combined market value of… pic.twitter.com/sxsaxib1de

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Taking action under the second provisional attachment order, ED has attached Goa’s luxury hotel “Westin Goa”. Located near Anjuna Beach, this hotel is registered in the name of Pacifica Hotels India Private Limited and the names of Rahul Agarwal and Vijay Kumar Agarwal are included among its directors. It is alleged that the hotel was purchased for approximately Rs 110 crore and the entire amount was paid from illegal cash obtained from the liquor scam.