Hyderabad/New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case to investigate an alleged liquor scam that took place in Andhra Pradesh during the previous YSRCP regime, official sources said on Thursday.

The federal probe agency has filed an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe alleged irregularities in the sale of liquor in the state.

The ED case stems from a September 2024 FIR of the economic offences CID of the state police, they said.

Sources said the agency will investigate liquor agents, vendors, among others. ED will also examine the possible involvement of government officials in this case.

The ED has also been probing irregularities in the liquor trade in Chhattisgarh and Bihar. PTI NES GDK PYK PYK

Money laundering probe into alleged liquor-sale irregularities under anti-money laundering law, targeting agents, vendors and possible officials. An anti-money laundering probe was opened under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act via an Enforcement Case Information Report based on a September 2024 FIR to investigate alleged irregularities in liquor sales; the inquiry targets liquor agents, vendors and possible involvement of government officials, and forms part of related enforcement activity into liquor-trade irregularities in other states.