The Asian Age

Fraud deals worth ` 15cr by Yadav kin under lens

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New Delhi/ Chandigarh, July 12: The Income Tax Department ( ITD) on Thursday said it has seized about ` 27 lakh cash and a number of documents and payment receipts after it raided multiple premises of a hospital group in Haryana’s Rewari, related to family of Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav.

A senior ITD official said that the department also recovered transactio­n receipts of about ` 15 crore, suspected to be unaccounte­d, after the raids on the offices of the hospital group. The raids have ended now.

Department officials in Chandigarh also claimed to have found alleged documents related to the purchase of a land plot by the owners of the hospital group in the past, using a purported cash amount of ` 93 lakh.

This transactio­n is under investigat­ion now, they said.

About ` 29 lakh cash was found as part of the raids that were launched on Wednesday morning. Out of this, about ` 27 lakh has been seized on the suspicion of being alleged unaccounte­d money, the senior official said. The officials added that they have got “vital leads” on the purchase of a diamond jewellery by Yogendra Yadav’s nephew Gautam Yadav, main partner in the hospital group. They had alleged that Gautam paid ` 3.25 lakh in cash, out of the total ` 6.50 lakh, for purchase of the jewellery from the diamantair­e Nirav Modi’s firm.

When contacted, Gautam said that while purchasing the lone diamond ring from the Nirav Modi group about two years back he had “given his PAN number and it was a genuine transactio­n.”

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