Mumbai, Dept ( TVN) The Income Tax Department has alleged that former Maharashtra Home Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Anil Deshmukh concealed income of about Rs 17 crore to evade taxes.
The department had raided properties linked to Deshmukh in connection with an alleged tax evasion case on September 17.
Besides the tax department, the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate(ED)are also investigating money-laundering and extortion charges against the former Maharashtra minister.
The tax raids were conducted a day after the Enforcement Directorate filed a chargesheet in its case against Deshmukh.
The Income Tax Department said it has searched 30 premises linked to Deshmukh across Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Delhi and Kolkata.
The department alleged that three educational institutions of a trust linked to Deshmukh had indulged in inflation of expenses. It said that the trust partly collected back salaries paid to their employees in cash and put the amount recovered at Rs 12 crore.
During the search, it was also found that the trust, apart from the suppression of receipts, has paid substantial amounts to brokers for arranging admissions,” the statement alleged.
Such payments, to the tune of about Rs 87 lakh, have been paid in cash and are completely unaccounted.
The tax officials also seized documents and other digital evidence from the premises linked to Deshmukh.
Evidence for receipt of a bogus donation in the hands of the trust run by the Deshmukh group through money laundering , using Delhi-based companies to the extent of Rs 4 crore has been found,” the agency alleged,
This clearly substantiates the laundering of the unaccounted income of the assessee routed as a donation to the trust.
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