Wednesday, February 17, 2010

State I-T raids over money laundering

In an early morning swoop, the income tax (I-T) department raided the residential premises of Jay Shanker Tiwari and H B Lal in Patna on Tuesday. Five other premises in Patna and Ara, including a nursing home-cum-pathological laboratory in Raza Bazaar locality, here, were raided by the I-T teams, too, sources said.

The raids were part of the nationwide search conducted in 37 premises spread over the four states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Maharashtra in connection with the money laundering scam in which former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his close aides, Binod Kumar Sinha and Sanjay Choudhary, are the prime accused.

Tiwari, a retired Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, was the state mines secretary and Lal, chairman of Jharkhand State Electricity Board. I-T teams raided Tiwari’s Kankerbagh residence and that of Lal in Patel Nagar, sources said. Raids began around 7 am and search operation was still on till the filing of this report.

Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/State-I-T-raids-over-money-laundering/articleshow/5582200.cms

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