Veerappa Moily has issued a press note amid the arrest of another prominent Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Tuesday. Moily linked the arrest of the former Karnataka Cabinet Minister to Café Coffee Day owner VG Siddhartha’s suicide and said that the present trend of tax terrorism and abuse of agencies like ED and CBI for political witch-hunt is alarming. Moily alleged that the suicide of VG Siddhartha was a result of the tax terrorism in the country and brought the arrest of DK Shivakumar under the same page stating that government agencies are being used in a politically motivated witch-hunt.

READ | D K Shivakumar arrested by ED under money-laundering charges

Shivakumar arrested after Chidambaram

Shivakumar has been arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The Enforcement Directorate which was questioning him since last four days said that he was not cooperating with the investigation hence it felt the need to arrest him for further probing. Shivakumar’s arrest in a money laundering case is the second high profile arrest of such nature of Congress leaders in the last few weeks after the arrest of former Union Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media Case.

ED's case

The Enforcement Directorate had registered a case of money laundering in September 2018 against Shivakumar based on a charge sheet filed by the Income-tax department against him on alleged tax evasion and hawala transaction charges.

READ | DK Shivakumar arrested: Here's the ED and Income Tax case against him

Former Chief Ministers HD Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah back Shivakumar

In a tweet, DK Shivakumar sarcastically congratulated the BJP for arresting him and further alleged that the income tax and ED cases against him were a political vendetta by BJP 

In another tweet, he appealed to his party members and supporters to not be disappointed as he has full faith in the judiciary and will come out clean from this political vendetta.

READ | DK Shivakumar tweets mid-arrest, calls himself victim of BJP vengeance