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Income Tax dept conducts raids over illegal coal trading, other charges

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has carried out raids on few business groups engaged in coal trading, transportation, execution of civil contracts, extraction of iron ore and production of sponge iron. Those searched on November 4 include two politically exposed persons and their associates.---Advertisement--- The searches were also carried out at Ranchi, Godda, Bermo, Dumka, […]

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has carried out raids on few business groups engaged in coal trading, transportation, execution of civil contracts, extraction of iron ore and production of sponge iron.

Those searched on November 4 include two politically exposed persons and their associates.

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The searches were also carried out at Ranchi, Godda, Bermo, Dumka, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Patna, Gurugram, and Kolkata.

The search operation has led to the seizure of large number of incriminating documents and digital evidences.

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A preliminary analysis of these evidences indicates that these groups have resorted to various modus-operandi of tax evasion including inflation of expenses, transactions of loans in cash, payments/receipts in cash and suppression of production.

During the search, it has also been found that investments have been made in immovable properties, the source of which could not be fully explained.

The search operation also revealed that one of the groups engaged in civil contracts was not maintaining regular books of account.

The group has been inflating its expenses by entering into non-genuine transactions of purchase of raw material/ sub-contract expenses in lumpsum at the fag end of the year.

The said group has also introduced its unaccounted money in the form of unsecured loans and share capital by layering the transactions through shell companies.

Professionals associated with this group have admitted that they had not verified any supporting documents and had signed the audit report prepared by the group’s accountant without due diligence.

So far, the searches have revealed unaccounted transactions/ investments exceeding Rs 100 crore. Further investigations are under progress.

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Pranjal Gupta


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