After UP, now tax raids at politically influential circle of relatives in MP finds great amount of unaccounted money

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BHOPAL: After ballot certain Uttar Pradesh, now tax raids in adjacent Madhya Pradesh have thrown up a plethora of unaccounted money, which used to be stashed amongst different puts within an underground water tank.

Source of revenue Tax division searches at greater than ten premises owned by way of the politically influential Rai circle of relatives in Damoh district of MP, which began at 5 am on Thursday and ended at round 11.30 pm on Friday, has thrown up huge unaccounted money totaling over Rs 8 crores.

Out of the unaccounted money which has been recovered from the raided premises round Rs 1 crore used to be stashed in a bag and put within an underground water tank.

The IT division sleuths had to make use of a hair dryer and garments iron to dry the rainy Rs 500 foreign money notes recovered from the underground water tank, earlier than counting them with a couple of foreign money observe counting machines. Movies of the bag containing money and rainy foreign money notes being dried with garments iron-hair dryer have long past viral.

The IT division groups led by way of joint director Munmun Sharma additionally seized gold jewelry valued at a number of crore rupees, resources aware about the round 42 hours lengthy seek confided to The New Indian Specific.

The Rai circle of relatives contains 4 brothers, Shankar Rai, Kamal Rai, Raju Rai and Sanjay Rai. The circle of relatives has stakes in a couple of companies, together with liquor industry, motels and delivery. Whilst Shankar Rai used to be the previous chairman of Damoh Nagar Palika with Congress fortify, brother Kamal Rai used to be the ex-chairman of the similar municipality with BJP fortify. Shankar Rai’s son is an area Congress chief.

In January 2019, Jawahar Jaiswal, a former Samajwadi Birthday party MP from Chandauli seat of East Uttar Pradesh, used to be arrested by way of UP STF from the premises of Sanjay Rai. The previous SP MP (a detailed relative of Sanjay Rai) had a bounty of Rs 25,000 on head in a homicide case. Jaiswal is a large liquor baron and hotelier from Varanasi, who has been with the BJP additionally previously.

Maximum family members and contacts of the Rai circle of relatives are primarily based in neighbouring ballot certain UP.

The searches have additionally led the IT division sleuths to incriminating paperwork which recommend primary benami transactions, together with operation of authorized liquor vend within the title of staff, one in every of whom used to be serving as conductor of buses of the Rai circle of relatives, resources added.

With the IT division sniffing huge tax evasion and primary benami investments in MP and different states, Rs 10,000 award has been declared for any person giving clinching details about extra homes of the Rai circle of relatives.