Hyderabad, May 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case to investigate an alleged Rs.3,200-crore liquor scam that took place during the YSR Congress Party government's tenure in Andhra Pradesh, even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police, which is probing the case, issued notices on Friday to the top officials associated with the chief minister's office (CMO) in the previous regime, people familiar with the matter said.

A senior official in the state police department said that ED formally registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) on May 6, initiating a detailed probe into the suspected money laundering in the liquor scam and named 33 people as accused in the case....