A day after a breakaway group alleged that Aam Aadmi Party was involved in laundering money, party leaders are set to approach Supreme Court to ask for a probe into funding for all political parties.
“5 AAP leaders will go to SC today at 10.30am to submit an application for an SIT probe into funding of BJP, Cong n AAP,” party chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted on Tuesday.
Tweets by other AAP leaders revealed that Yogendra Yadav, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh & Ashish Khaitan will submit the letter to the Supreme Court asking for the probe by a special investigation team.
This comes after the AAP Volunteer Action Manch (AVAM), a splinter group of the party, alleged on Monday that the party had taken donations worth Rs 2 crore from four ‘dubious’ companies and was involved in money laundering.
The group alleged that AAP took donations worth Rs 50 lakh each on April 5, 2014 at 12am from four companies that do not have the bank balance to donate this kind of money. They also claimed that the addresses of the companies were fake.
AAP replied it was open to investigation by any government agency but did not answer questions regarding who owned these companies.
“We are the only party that declares all its donations transparently. We welcome all the questions that are being raised and are open to any investigation. AVAM has questioned the timing of these donations. I must make it clear that details of the donations are updated on the website in batches at night and that is why this amount is being reflected at 12 am. This is a conspiracy. We invite the government to order an investigation before the February 7 polls by any of its agencies CBI, ED, IB, police or the army and arrest us if we have done anything wrong,” party leader and spokesperson Yogendra Yadav had said.
AVAM alleged that the four companies — Skyline Metal and Alloys Private Limited, Goldmine Buildcon Private Limited, Infolance Software Solutions Private Limited and Sunvision Agencies Private Limited — had been dormant for the past several years and had not made any money.
“This is a clear case of money laundering. How is it possible that a former income tax commissioner does not understand money laundering? The companies have not filed a return for 2014 yet but till 2013, these companies had not earned a single penny. The director in three of the four companies is also the same,” AVAM’s Gopal Goyal alleged.