NEW DELHI, March 22 -- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the "kingpin and key conspirator" in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate claimed on Friday before a court which sent the AAP chief to seven-day custody of the probe agency, a day after his dramatic arrest.

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) also claimed before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja at the Rouse Avenue court that Kejriwal "took advantage" of being the chief minister of Delhi to facilitate money laundering by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is a "major beneficiary" of the proceeds of crimes generated in the alleged Delhi liquor scam. It is for the first time during the ED's two-year probe into the case that the agency was claiming tha...