The Congress party on Saturday said it has nothing to do with the business of MP Dheeraj Sahu, from whose premises the Income Tax Department has recovered unaccounted cash worth around Rs 300 crore.
Congress media in-charge Jairam Ramesh gave this information by tweeting. He said that only Dheeraj Sahu can tell from where so much cash came.
Let us inform that Income Tax (IT) officials continued raids on the premises associated with Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu for the fourth consecutive day.
The raids were conducted at properties belonging to the influential family in Ranchi, Sabalpur, Bolangir, Titilagarh, Boudh and Sudargarh in Jharkhand and Rourkela and Bhubaneswar in Odisha.
Till Friday, over Rs 220 crore in cash has been recovered during raids at locations mainly linked to the Odisha-based distillery group owned by Sahu and his family.
After this huge cash recovery, BJP is now attacking Congress. Amidst all the allegations, Congress itself has raised questions on the treasury of its MP.
Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “Indian National Congress has nothing to do with the business of MP Dheeraj Sahu. Only he can explain, and he must explain, how such huge amounts of cash are being allegedly recovered from his locations by the Income Tax authorities.”
The “unaccounted” cash found following the Income Tax Department’s raid against an Odisha-based liquor manufacturing group and its associated concerns is likely to be more than Rs 300 crore.
This is believed to be the “highest” amount of black money recovered so far in a single operation by the agency. Official sources gave this information on Saturday.
Sources said that after the crackdown which started on December 6 following the raids against Boudh Distillery Pvt Ltd and others, the Income Tax Department has deployed about 40 big and small machines for counting the notes and to complete the counting process the department has And more employees of the bank have been brought.
Besides this, the department has sought more vehicles to transport the seized cash to state-run banks.
Some of the major seizures in the past include an incident in 2019 when GST Intelligence conducted a raid against a Kanpur-based businessman and seized cash worth Rs 257 crore.
Also, in another incident, the Income Tax Department had detected cash worth Rs 163 crore during a raid against a road construction company in Tamil Nadu in July 2018.
He said Rs 230 crore in cash was seized from about 10 cabinets kept at the company’s premises in Bolangir district, while the remaining amount was seized from the premises in Titlagarh, Sambalpur and Ranchi. Sources said that around 200 small and big bags were used to keep the cash.