Bizman, held in 38 cr liquor scam, sent to jail
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The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) arrested Gupta on the evening of June 25 after long hours of questioning at its office here and produced him before the special court the next day.
Notably, Prism Hologram was awarded a contract under state govt's new excise policy in 2022. The company was accused of supplying fake holograms for liquor bottles. It may be stated here that ACB has so far nabbed seven persons including in connection with the liquor scam.
ACB earlier arrested IAS officer Vinay Choubey (former secretary of the state excise and prohibitions department), former IAS officer Amit Prakash, former state excise commissioner Gajendra Singh, the then Jharkhand State Beverages Corporation Limited general manager (GM) Sudhir Kumar Das and GM operation cum finance Sudhir Kumar, Raipur based businessman Sidharth Singhania and a local representative of M/s Marshan Innovative Security Service Limited Neeraj Kumar Singh since May this year in the Rs 38 crore scam.
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