The CBI arrested Mopidevi May 24 last year when he was serving as the minister for excise. He resigned as minister the next day.
The CBI charged Mopidevi with violating rules while allotting land and extending some concessions to VANPIC, a mega port and infrastructure project promoted by industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad, for the alleged investment Prasad made in the companies owned by Jaganmohan Reddy.
Mopidevi was then holding infrastructure and investment portfolio in the cabinet of then chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, father of Jaganmohan Reddy.
