Overview
- Karumuri Sunil Kumar, son of former civil supplies minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate and remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by the Special Court (PMLA) after his appearance on Thursday.
- Following June 11 searches, the ED says it seized a luxury car, watches worth ₹94.5 lakh, cash and documents that it alleges link the accused to suspicious financial transactions and property holdings.
- The agency alleges that Andhra Pradesh State Beverages Corporation tenders were deliberately modified to favour select firms, with Sigma Supply Chain Solutions and Prasaad Transports identified as front entities in a cartel that won inflated transport contracts.
- Sunil Kumar's arrest comes after earlier ED arrests this month of alleged kingpin Kessireddy Raja Shekhar Reddy and former APSBCL managing director D. Vasudeva Reddy as the probe widened.
- The investigation remains active under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act with forensic accounting and asset tracing underway and possible further detentions or seizures as prosecutors build the money trail and links to family and associates.