Income tax officers recover cash and gold from West Bengal liquor seller!!

The Income Tax Department started a search operation on a group, who were suspected to be involved in the business of manufacturing and selling illigal poisonous liquor , mainly grain-based alcohol. They used to use the bottles of foreign liquor brands. Income Tax Department has recovered almost ₹351 crore worth of money and unaccounted number of  gold jewellery which could be worth of more than ₹2.80 crore. The search were conducted in more than 30 places across 10 districts in Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

 

The search were conducted in more than 30 places across 10 districts!

The IT Department did a huge search operation on December 6. It was done on a group that involved in the business of manufacturing and selling illigal  poisonous liquor, grain-based alcohol in the bottling of foreign liquor. They used to  run hospitals and educational institutions. The agency found more than ₹329 crore in all of those small towns in Odisha, west Bengal and Odisha.

When the search operation was going on, a large number of incriminating evidence in the form of documents and digital data has also been found, the IT department has seized these. Primary level of analysis saying that those seized evidence reveals some secret records of many unaccounted sales of country liquor. It was a huge amount of undisclosed cash receipts and references of unaccounted cash. The main employees who were looking after the business activities of the group, have now admitted that the cash, that was found and seized during the search operation, represents those unaccounted incomes of the group. These were generated through their multiple business concerns.