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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tamil Nadu noon meal scam: Income Tax seizures reveal payment of Rs. 2,400 crore in kickbacks to politicians, officials -S Vijay Kumar

Tamil Nadu noon meal scam: Income Tax seizures reveal payment of Rs. 2,400 crore in kickbacks to politicians, officials -S Vijay Kumar

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published Published on Nov 24, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 24, 2018
-The Hindu

Seizures from premises of Christy Friedgram Industry included documents related to suspicious payments and classified documents like proposals for posting of IAS officers.

Chennai: The Income Tax Department has unearthed documents that expose an alleged nexus between a major supplier of food items for Tamil Nadu’s flagship noon meal scheme and politicians, bureaucrats and their associates.

Analysis of electronic storage devices and documents seized from the premises of Tiruchengode-based Christy Friedgram Industry, its employees and others in July has revealed payment of kickbacks to the tune of ?2,400 crore to top politicians, senior bureaucrats and their family members in recent years.

Highly placed sources told The Hindu on Thursday that the investigating wing of the Income Tax Department had started the process of issuing summons to the suspected beneficiaries of the scam. Christy Friedgram Industry is a supplier of items like weaning food, pulses and palm oil for the noon meal programme and other welfare schemes of the Social Welfare Department.

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The Hindu, 24 November, 2018, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadu-noon-meal-scam-income-tax-seizures-reveal-payment-of-2400-crore-in-kickbacks-to-politicians-officials/article


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