by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Chennai : Income Tax (IT) officials on Tuesday raided 33 premises in Tamil Nadu here and Madurai belonging to three business groups. It is a follow-up to its earlier searches linked to jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala’s kin and business associates, said a senior official.
“Search operations are on… The officials are carrying out searches in the premises of Marg group, S2, and Millennium,” the IT official told IANS preferring anonymity.
According to him, this is a follow-up of the IT Department’s search operations carried out in 187 premises belonging to the relatives of Sasikala and their business organisations.
The raid comes days after the IT officials carried out that massive search operation and unearthed Rs 1,430 crore of tax evasion.
The IT Department also raided the residence of late Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary J.Jayalalithaa after that.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
V.K. Sasikala and T.T.V. Dinakaran
Chennai : Income Tax (IT) officials on Thursday raided 187 locations belonging to relatives of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala, her nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran and organisations connected to them in several cities, said a senior IT official.
He said the search is in connection with unexplained routing of cash post-demonetisation through shell companies connected with them.
Ten groups of IT officials were involved in “the search exercise taking place across Tamil Nadu, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and other places”, an IT official told IANS preferring anonymity.
The raids began at 6 a.m. The tax officials also searched the residence of M. Natarajan, husband of Sasikala in Thanjavur, according to reports.
They also raided the Kodanad Tea Estate belonging to late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.
The official said the IT department will look at routing of funds within India and there are other agencies to look at routing of funds outside India.
The IT officials are also searching the AIADMK Tamil daily Namadhu MGR.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
New Delhi : The Income Tax Department on Saturday raided over 50 premises belonging to a leading auto spare parts manufacturing firm in the National Capital Region and recovered cash worth Rs seven crore, officials said.
An IT official requesting anonymity told IANS that the searches were carried out at offices and properties of the Jai Bharat Maruti Group across Delhi, Harayana’s Gurugram and Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad.
Besides the cash, three kg of gold was also recovered.
According to IT officials, the Jai Bharat Maruti Group, is a leading supplier of automobile spare parts to firms like Maruti Suzuki and Ashok Leyland.
The official also said that the raids were being carried out since Thursday.
—IANS
