I-T dept grills Karnataka minister Shivakumar in tax evasion case

January 03, 2019 22:22

Senior Karnataka minister D KShivakumar was on Thursday grilled for about three hours by the Income Tax department for alleged tax evasion, officials said.

Shivakumar, a frontline Congress leader in the state,was summoned for questioning as part of a 'routine process' following searches at various properties linked to him on August 2, department sources said.

The minister had already appeared before I-T officials twice in July and August last year.

The searches were conducted after Shivakumar hosted 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs at a resort on the city outskirts to forestall alleged attempts by the BJP to poach them ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls which the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel won.

Last September, the Enforcement Directorate hadregistered a money laundering case against him and a fewothers for allegedly indulging in hawala transactions.

The I-T department had accused Shivakumar and his associate S K Sharma of transporting 'huge' amounts of unaccounted cash on a 'regular basis' through hawala channels with the help of three other accused. -- PTI

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