The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed the seventh supplementary chargesheet in the money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy-2021-22 and named Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as accused in the case.

The party and the AAP chief have been booked under various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The chargesheet has mentioned of having evidence that the money was sent to the AAP via “hawala” channels. It has also claimed to have found chats between Kejriwal and “hawala” operators.

Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 and lodged in Tihar jail before being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court till June 1 to enable him to campaign for AAP during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

In its remand order after the arrest of Kejriwal on March 21, the ED had alleged that the CM was the “kingpin” of the Delhi excise policy scam and added that he was directly involved in policy formulation and in handling the proceeds of crime as well. “As the Chief Minister of the Delhi government, which is run by the AAP, Arvind Kejriwal was the key conspirator in the excise policy scam,” the agency had said.

On May 10, the ED had filed another prosecution complaint and named Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha and four others as accused. Kavitha was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 15 from Hyderabad, following allegations that she was also involved in the money laundering case.