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Income tax raids at 70 addresses linked to ex-Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda | The Income Tax department on Saturday conducted nationwide raids at 70 addresses linked to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and others allegedly involved in unaccounted money transaction during his term. Addressing a press conference in Ranchi, Income Tax Director of Investigation,
Ujjwal Choudhary, said: "Search operations are being held at the places related
to Madhu Koda, Vinod Kumar Sinha and Sanjay Chowdhary. In total the search operations
are going on at 70 places in the cities like Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata and Nasik." Choudhary also said that during Koda's tenure as the
Chief Minister, he was involved in the transaction of unaccounted money. "According
to the information, during the period when Koda was the Mining Minister and Arjun
Munda was the Chief Minister and also under the Chief Ministership of Madhu Koda,
it seems like deals took place where unaccounted money was transacted. The search
operations are being held for that purpose," Choudhary added. The raids comes
after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) registered a case against Koda and eight
others for alleged money laundering, diversion of State funds and making huge
illegal investments abroad. The ED filed an Enforcement Case Information Report
before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ranchi on October
10. Koda has been booked under the PMLA along with three of his State Cabinet
colleagues Kamlesh Singh, Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Bhandu Tirkey, besides five others.
Koda is also alleged to have purchased mines worth 1.7 million dollars in Liberia,
after he became chief minister of the mineral rich state in 2006 as an independent
legislator, third politician in the country to achieve this feat. |
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