PANJIM: A day after the Enforcement Directorate summoned him, Goa-based hotelier Gaurav Arya, who is being probed into allegations of money laundering in the Sushant Singh Rajput case, left for Mumbai for ED questioning.
Replying to reporters queries, Arya on Sunday claimed he had never met the actor. ED officials have called Arya, who runs Hotel Tamarind and Café Cotinga in Goa, for questioning on Monday. “I have no connection with the case. I never met Sushant Singh Rajput. I met her (Rhea) in 2017,” the Goa-based hotelier told ANI at the Goa airport.
Arya has also been linked to the drugs angle in connection with Rajput’s death at his Mumbai apartment on June 14. His name sprang up in Chakraborty’s WhatsApp conversations related to drugs. Investigators believe he used to supply drugs to Chakraborty.
He has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and is being investigated by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
