AAP leaders accept funds flouting rules
23 Nov 2013 5:24 AM IST
In a big exposé just ahead of the Delhi assembly elections, several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including Shazia Ilmi, Dinesh Mohania, Irfan Ullah Khan and Kumar Vishwas, have been caught accepting funds illegally in a sting operation carried out by a web portal named Media Sarkar.
A reporter from Media Sarkar met Ilmi at a restaurant posing as an employee of a private firm and offered to pay Rs 25 lakh as donation towards AAP funds. The reporter told Ilmi that in lieu of the funds he needed help to expose another private firm’s wrongdoing. Ilmi directed the reporter to her personal assistant Siddharth for completing the formalities. The reporter offered to pay Rs 10 through cheque and Rs 15 lakh in cash to Siddharth. The PA also told the reporter that the fund would be adjusted in the miscellaneous expenses and that no documentation was needed. The sting has exposed that while several other AAP leaders accepted funds and others were ready to accept money from Media Sarkar reporters without proper documents.
Ilmi, meanwhile has offered to resign and not contest elections till her name is cleared from the scandal.
A reporter from Media Sarkar met Ilmi at a restaurant posing as an employee of a private firm and offered to pay Rs 25 lakh as donation towards AAP funds. The reporter told Ilmi that in lieu of the funds he needed help to expose another private firm’s wrongdoing. Ilmi directed the reporter to her personal assistant Siddharth for completing the formalities. The reporter offered to pay Rs 10 through cheque and Rs 15 lakh in cash to Siddharth. The PA also told the reporter that the fund would be adjusted in the miscellaneous expenses and that no documentation was needed. The sting has exposed that while several other AAP leaders accepted funds and others were ready to accept money from Media Sarkar reporters without proper documents.
Ilmi, meanwhile has offered to resign and not contest elections till her name is cleared from the scandal.
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