Kasireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, better known as Raj Kasireddy, who had been the advisor to the government (information technology) during the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy regime till last year, is learnt to have gone absconding a few days ago.
The Andhra Pradesh police have been on the lookout for Raj Kasireddy for the last few months for his alleged involvement in the irregularities in liquor trade during the Jagan government.
According to the sources, he has made a few thousands of crores through the liquor money dealing in the last five years.
Apparently, former AP Beverages Corporation Ltd (APBCL) managing director Donthireddy Vasudeva Reddy facing the investigation from the Crime Investigation Department, has fixed Raj Kasireddy in the case.
He is learnt to have disclosed to the investigating authorities that it was Raj Kasireddy who handled the ill-gotten money from the liquor trade, in coordination with a YSRCP MP. The money was ultimately routed to the top bosses in the YSRCP, it was alleged.
In the last few months, the Andhra police booked three FIR against Raj Kasi Reddy and began digging deep into the liquor business scam. They questioned him a few times to probe his role in the scam.
At the same time, he has been trying to wriggle out of the scam using his connections with the big political bosses in Telangana.
The police believe Raj Kasireddy is the key link in the case and if he is arrested, they can trail the money flow and book the top YSRCP leaders in the scam.
Sources said when Raj Kasireddy realized that he might get arrested any time, he went into hiding last week. The last phone call of Raj Kasireddy the police could trace was at the Journalists’ Colony in Jubilee Hills.
“Since the cops have impounded his passport, he might not have gone out of the country. He is very much there in either of the Telugu states or somewhere in India. It might not take much time for the cops to arrest him, unless he uses his clout with bigwigs at the Centre to wriggle out of the case,” sources added.
