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Former Andhra Pradesh CM and YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has been named in the chargesheet filed by the state police in connection with the Rs 3,500 crore alleged liquor scam.

In the chargesheet presented in a local court, the police has not mentioned the former chief minister as accused but as one of the recipients of the total kickbacks averaging Rs 50-60 crore per month.

The Andhra Pradesh Police filed a 305-page chargesheet on Saturday, however, the court is yet to take the cognizance of the chargesheet.

The chargesheet stated, "The collected amounts were eventually handed over to Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy(A-1). Rajasekhar Reddy would then pass the money to Vijay Sai Reddy (A-5), Mithun Reddy (A-4), Balaji (A-33) who would transfer it to former Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. On an average, Rs 50-60 crore was collected every month (during the 2019-24 YSRCP regime)".

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It also alleged that Rajasekhar Reddy, "the mastermind and co-conspirator" behind the liquor scam, had influenced excise policy manipulation besides being instrumental in replacing automated OFS (order for supply) with manual process.

This was done to have planted loyalists in APSBCL (Andhra Pradesh State Beverages Corporation Limited). Rajasekhar allegedly created shell distilleries and handed over kickbacks to Jagan via another accused Balaji Govindappa.

For elections, Rajasekhar Reddy routed somewher between Rs 250-Rs 300 crore cash on behalf of YSRCP Party in tandem with accused Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy (former MLA). Rajasekhar was also responsible for laundering funds through over 30 shell firms.

The accused invested the amount in land, gold, luxury assets in Dubai and Africa. The chargesheet added, "The accused planned the change in excise policy and also its modalities, to ensure that they would receive large kickbacks, majority portion of such kickbacks was received in cash, gold bullion etc".

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During the probe, the Andhra SIT found that the accused deliberately withheld OFS approvals to brands/distilleries who did not yield to the kickback demands.

This comes after the SIT, probing the alleged liquor scam, arrested YSRCP Lok Sabha MP PV Midhun Reddy on Saturday in the case after grilling him for several hours.

(With PTI Inputs)