The Enforcement Directorate has arrested two liquor businessmen in connection with a money laundering probe into an alleged excise scam in Chhattisgarh. The case, which is estimated to have generated over Rs 2,100 crore of slush funds, involved 70 individuals and companies, including former excise minister Kawasi Lakhma and former chief secretary Vivek Dhand. The ED has pegged the proceeds of crime at Rs 2,161 crore. Trilok Singh Dhillon was accused of being a "prime beneficiary" of the proceeds of crime through a "classic" mode of money laundering.
