ACB: Liquor racket an ‘organised crime’

Apr 01, 2012 |

Hyderabad

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau’s case against the liquor syndicate at Vizianagaram, indirectly aimed at transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana, took a new turn on Saturday with ACB DG Boobathi Babu calling it “organised crime”.

The ACB will now check the money flow and find out how the holders of ‘white’ ration cards could pay lakhs for the shops auctioned. There is already a tussle between CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and Mr Boobathi Babu on the matter.

Boobathi Babu said, “A case was registered on March 3, pertaining to the fraud committed in the auction of liquor shops in Vizianagaram district in 2010. There are 202 licence holders in this district. Out of them, 103 licence holders possess white ration cards. Three licence holders were issued cards under the Antyodaya scheme. Nine licence holders possess temporary ration cards.”

“Several wine shops bear similar trade names, which possibly indicates that they are controlled by one or more group of persons or syndicates. They have accomplished their object of gaining control over more than 50 per cent of shops in the district, with the active assistance and collusion of the officials. These cases have several ingredients of organised crime,” Mr Babu said.

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