NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday arrested Hyderabad businessman Sana Satish Babu, an accused in the meat exporter Moin Qureshi money laundering case and who was at the centre of the fierce infighting with CBI last year.Sana had been a key element in the feud between former CBI director Alok Verma and his erstwhile No. 2 Rakesh Asthana . The confrontation between the two senior-most CBI officers started in August 2018 when Asthana wrote to the cabinet secretary about his finding that Sana, co-promoter of Playboy Club in Hyderabad, had allegedly paid huge bribes to Verma for hushing up the case the CBI had filed against him for paying bribes through Qureshi to secure help for businessman Sukesh Gupta, director of MBS Jewellers.However, in a sensational turn just months later, Verma in October ordered registration of an FIR against Asthana for allegedly extorting Rs 2 crore from Sana. Embarrassed by the agency feud, the government moved both the officers out of the CBI. According to an ED probe report, Sana paid Rs 2.25 crore to Qureshi in exchange of the help the meat exporter was supposed to organise for the businessman.The ED has accused Sana of having invested Rs 50 lakh in MS Great Heights Infratech and Rs 1.5 crore in LNG Business. During his questioning, Sana allegedly told investigators the investments were actually bribes Qureshi collected for ensuring that CBI would not obstruct the release of Sukesh Gupta on bail.More importantly, after Sana's arrest, the ED is likely to confront him about his allegation of having paid bribes to Asthana and ascertain whether he made the charges damning the then CBI special director under coercion. Last year, the ED had also registered a money laundering case against former CBI director A P Singh for allegedly having received bribes from Qureshi.Records collected from the I-T department and BBM messages allegedly revealed that Qureshi had collected a lot of money from different businessmen, including Sana, for obtaining undue favours from public servants.In 2017, Sana's links with Qureshi came to light when he was investigated by the CBI in the Vodarevu and Nizampatnam Port and Industrial Corridor (Vanpic) project case of Andhra Pradesh. The CBI chief chanced upon a conversation between him and Qureshi about the deal for organising bail for Gupta.Sana denied the allegation, claiming he had made the payment to Qureshi as an investment in the latter's Great Heights Infra project. Sana said he had a business relationship with Qureshi and nothing else. He is also said to be close to a few accused whose names figured in various chargesheets filed by the CBI against Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.