<h1>Retired senior bureaucrat arrested for allegedly aiding syndicate in Rs 2,500 crore liquor fraud, accused of kickbacks and tender manipulation</h1> A state anti-corruption/economic offences unit arrested a retired senior bureaucrat for allegedly aiding a syndicate in a large-scale liquor fraud, accused of receiving kickbacks worth several crore rupees, manipulating tenders, transferring officers, enabling flawed policy and facilitating unaccounted liquor sales. The enforcement agency alleges the syndicate laundered more than Rs 2,500 crore between 2019 and 2022; an FIR filed on January 17 last year names about 70 individuals and companies. Multiple chargesheets and supplementary chargesheets have been filed, over a dozen arrests made, and a parallel money-laundering probe is ongoing.