Overview
- A special PMLA court in Raipur ordered 14 days of judicial custody till January 2 after the ED’s three-day custodial remand ended on December 19.
- Chaurasia was arrested on December 16 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the ED’s investigation into the alleged liquor scam.
- The ED says digital records and recovered chats show her as a central coordinator linking figures such as Anil Tuteja and Chaitanya Baghel.
- The agency alleges she received about Rs 115.5 crore, and its lawyer cited a statement claiming around Rs 72 crore was transferred on her instructions.
- The probe stems from an ACB-EOW FIR that pegged proceeds of crime at over Rs 2,500 crore, with earlier ED arrests including ex-minister Kawasi Lakhma and former IAS officer Anil Tuteja.