“I do not know who this Hasan Ali is,” declared the actor-turned-politician and Praja Rajyam Party President Chiranjeevi.
He rubbished media reports suggesting links between Hasan Ali, a Pune-based muli-millionaire stud farm owner, and an unnamed film star-turned politician of Andhra Pradesh.
“Films were my life throughout my career. I do not know anything about Hasan Ali or his activities,” Chiranjeevi told the media on Tuesday as a sensational investigative report, published in a New Delhi-based daily, about the alleged nexus between Ali and Andhra politicians created ripples in the state political circles.
“It is for the central government to conduct a thorough probe and ferret out facts. If any politician in found having links with such nefarious activities, they should be exposed,” Chiranjeevi said.
According to the report, Hasan Ali, who is now in the CBI custody, helped a former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and a prominent film star-turned politician to launder their ill- gotten wealth and pump it back to fund elections and movies. Investigators said Ali was not just laundering black money, but was also helping politicians and film stars access it whenever they wanted.
Though the report did not mention the names of these two leaders for want of documentary evidence, it was obvious that it was referring to Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi. The report said Ali had assisted at least two regional political parties of Andhra Pradesh in routing back their black money for election campaigns during the past decade.
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