BENGALURU: Senior Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar used to be on Thursday grilled for about three hours through the Income Tax department for alleged tax evasion, officials stated.
Shivakumar, a frontline Congress chief within the state, used to be summoned for questioning as part of a "routine process" following searches at various homes related to him on August 2, department resources stated.
The minister had already appeared prior to I-T officials two times in July and August closing yr.
The searches have been carried out after Shivakumar hosted 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs at a resort at the town outskirts to forestall alleged attempts through the BJP to poach them ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls which the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel gained.
Last September, the Enforcement Directorate had registered a cash laundering case in opposition to him and a couple of others for allegedly indulging in hawala transactions.
The I-T department had accused Shivakumar and his associate SK Sharma of transporting "huge" quantities of unaccounted cash on a "regular basis" thru hawala channels with the assistance of three other accused.
The other accused are Sachin Narayan, Anjaneya Hanumanthaiah and N Rajendra.
Narayan is a industry spouse of Shivakumar and Sharma is the owner of Sharma Transports, which runs a fleet of luxurious and passenger buses and gives delivery services to various considerations and people on condominium foundation, IT department had stated in its criticism.
Hanumanthaiah, an worker posted at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, used to be allegedly liable for storing and handling unaccounted cash of Shivakumar within the national capital, it had stated.
Rajendra, a caretaker at Karnataka Bhavan, also works for Sharma, except having a look after the immovable homes of Shivakumar and Sharma, it stated.
Unaccounted cash of about Rs 20 crore used to be seized throughout raids in New Delhi and Bengaluru closing August, and I-T officials stated the money used to be "directly relatable" to Shivakumar.
Shivakumar, however, claimed the I-T department used to be focused on him and not letting him "breathe", but asserted he would struggle the case legally.
A different court docket had granted him conditional bail in this case some time again and can hear the matter once more on September 20.
Shivakumar, a frontline Congress chief within the state, used to be summoned for questioning as part of a "routine process" following searches at various homes related to him on August 2, department resources stated.
The minister had already appeared prior to I-T officials two times in July and August closing yr.
The searches have been carried out after Shivakumar hosted 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs at a resort at the town outskirts to forestall alleged attempts through the BJP to poach them ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls which the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel gained.
Last September, the Enforcement Directorate had registered a cash laundering case in opposition to him and a couple of others for allegedly indulging in hawala transactions.
The I-T department had accused Shivakumar and his associate SK Sharma of transporting "huge" quantities of unaccounted cash on a "regular basis" thru hawala channels with the assistance of three other accused.
The other accused are Sachin Narayan, Anjaneya Hanumanthaiah and N Rajendra.
Narayan is a industry spouse of Shivakumar and Sharma is the owner of Sharma Transports, which runs a fleet of luxurious and passenger buses and gives delivery services to various considerations and people on condominium foundation, IT department had stated in its criticism.
Hanumanthaiah, an worker posted at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, used to be allegedly liable for storing and handling unaccounted cash of Shivakumar within the national capital, it had stated.
Rajendra, a caretaker at Karnataka Bhavan, also works for Sharma, except having a look after the immovable homes of Shivakumar and Sharma, it stated.
Unaccounted cash of about Rs 20 crore used to be seized throughout raids in New Delhi and Bengaluru closing August, and I-T officials stated the money used to be "directly relatable" to Shivakumar.
Shivakumar, however, claimed the I-T department used to be focused on him and not letting him "breathe", but asserted he would struggle the case legally.
A different court docket had granted him conditional bail in this case some time again and can hear the matter once more on September 20.
I-T dept grills Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar in tax evasion case
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