Income Tax Department officials recently conducted Bollywood film-style raids in Maharashtra’s Jalna and Aurangabad districts and unearthed 390 crore illegal assets in eight days of the raids.
The officers arrived as grooms, so that no one would get the news that they were coming to raid. They arrived in wedding cars with stickers.we will take the bride ‘Stickers’ reported on August 1st Zee News,
Officials raided homes, farmhouses and offices of steel manufacturing factories. The unaccounted assets seized include Rs 58 crore in cash, 32 kg of gold ornaments, Rs 16 crore including diamonds. Apart from this, property documents worth 300 crores have also been found.
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A total of 260 officers and a fleet of 120 cars – raids were conducted simultaneously at different places through different teams. to count 390 crore cash, it took 16 hours for the officials.
Nothing was recovered during the initial rounds of the raid, but bundles of money were soon found in the bed under the closet from a farmhouse not far from town. Gold ornaments, gold biscuits, gold bricks, gold coins and diamonds were found.
Apart from Jalna, raids were also conducted at the houses of two businessmen in Aurangabad. In these raids, 16 carat gold ornaments and diamonds have been found. Also, bundles of notes packed in 25 cloth bags were seized.
Earlier this year, the IT department conducted raids at various places across the country including in Kannauj and Kanpur, UP perfumer Piyush Jain, former cabinet minister of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Partha Chatterjee and his ‘intimate friend’ Arpita Mukherjee. Raids on residences and in Chennai. , In all these raids, the ID department has seized crores of rupees and other valuable properties.
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