'AAP has a nature of committing scams openly': BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra on Sanjay Singh's arrest

Taking potshots at AAP after a third leader of the party, Sanjay Singh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the party has a “nature of committing scams openly.”

“As per media sources, the incriminating documents procured from the house of Sanjay Singh will incriminate someone who is at the top in the hierarchy of AAP,” Patra said during a press conference in Odisha.

VIDEO | “As per media sources, the incriminating documents procured from the house of Sanjay Singh will incriminate someone who is at the top in the hierarchy of AAP,” says BJP leader @sambitswaraj on the arrest of AAP MP Sanjay Singh by ED while speaking at a press conference. pic.twitter.com/3zeP1lJwwa

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Singh was arrested on Wednesday evening after the anti-money laundering body conducted searches at his residence over the Delhi liquor policy scam.

Patra further said, “When a don of corruption is caught, incriminating documents are seized from his home… Which are stored in mobile phones and laptops… As far as the incriminating documents are concerned that have been procured from the house of Sanjay Singh… these documents will point to a person that is very big in the AAP chain…”

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This is the third major arrest in the party after Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain. Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, was arrested in February this year by the CBI over the liquorgate scandal.

Meanwhile, Jain, the Delhi Health Minister, was arrested last year in May on charges of money laundering.