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Ex-Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel's Son Held in Liquor Scam Case
The Business Guardian
|July 20, 2025
The Enforcement Directorate has claimed Chaitanya Baghel, son of senior Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, received Rs 16.70 crore from an alleged liquor scam and played a key role in handling more than Rs 1000 crore that constituted the proceeds of crime.
The ED Friday arrested Chaitanya Baghel during the day in an alleged liquor scam-linked money laundering case, official sources said.
In its remand application filed in a special court here, the ED said its probe has revealed he was in possession of proceeds of crime and was also actively involved in its acquisition, possession, concealment, transfer, use and projecting the same as untainted.
The ED investigation revealed that Rs 5 crore was received by two firms of Chaitanya from M/s Saheli Jewellers, and further Laxmi Narayan Bansal alias Pappu has confirmed that these funds were transferred against "cash originating out of liquor scam", the remand application said.
This story is from the July 20, 2025 edition of The Business Guardian.
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