The Special Investigation Team probing the Rs 3,500 crore liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh during the previous YSRCP regime seized Rs 11 crore in cash from a farmhouse in Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
The cash was hidden in 12 cardboard boxes and then stored in the farmhouse and the SIT officials traced it after interrogating accused Varun Purushottam.
According to investigators, this was a breakthrough in the probe into the liquor scam, which has seen the arrest of several YSRCP leaders, including sitting MP PV Midhun Reddy.
The newly appointed BJP state president, P V N Madhav, has predicted that former chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will certainly face arrest and go to jail in connection with the liquor scam.
SIT officials have seized cash worth Rs 11 crore, concealed in cardboard boxes and kept at a farmhouse called Sulochana Farm in Kacharam village of Shamsabad mandal in Ranga Reddy district. The SIT claimed that cash was concealed on the instructions of the main accused, Raj Kesireddy, by Varun and another accomplice, Chaitanya, in 2024.
The investigators are looking at the roles of both Varun and Chaitnya in transporting and storing the cash received as kickbacks from the liquor companies.
Meanwhile, Madhav predicted that Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will end up in jail and no one can stop it. Although the SIT has named the former AP chief minister in its charge sheet in the liquor scam, he was mentioned as one of the recipients of the kickback and not as an accused in the scam.
The SIT has alleged that the money received as kickbacks was also used to fund the General and Assembly elections in certain constituencies in 2024.
Reddy, however, has denied all allegations of the liquor scam and has accused chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of conspiring to frame YSRCP leaders in the scam and keep the Opposition leaders in jail.