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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tax raids on liquor baron close to Maya

Tax raids on liquor baron close to Maya

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published Published on Feb 2, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 2, 2012

-The Telegraph

Income tax officials today searched the house and two dozen properties of a liquor baron said to be close to Mayawati, the simultaneous raids apparently throwing up a chest that needed gas-cutters to prise open.

TV reports claimed the chest — found in the basement of a Noida mall said to be owned by Gurdeep Singh Chadha — could be stashed with notes worth over Rs 100 crore, but late tonight said no money was found in it.

“We have employed some gas-cutters to open the currency chest found in the basement of the Centre Stage mall and multiplex in Noida. Let’s see how much cash is there inside as the basement seems to be like the fabled cave of Ali Baba,” a tax official had said after the raids.

A police official in Noida had said they had “got information” that the tax sleuths seized a big vault stacked with cash. “But the exact amount is not known to us.”

Sources said the raids across Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on the properties of the businessman, better known as Ponty Chadha, followed a tip-off regarding alleged tax evasion and illegal sale of liquor in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh polls.

Chadha, according to tax officials, is in Dubai.

The 56-year-old, alleged to be close to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, runs one of the largest liquor businesses in the state. He also has business interests in the multiplex sector. A police official in Noida said Chadha owned the Centre Stage Mall.

The searches, by the Delhi-based criminal investigation unit of the department, began around 10.30 this morning. Some 25 properties were raided across Delhi, Noida and Lucknow.

“Right now we don’t know anything about the value of the currency seized from the other premises of Chadha,” a tax official said.

Police sources said Chadha, who had recently come under the scanner for alleged hawala dealings, was given sole distribution rights for liquor sale in Uttar Pradesh by the Mayawati government. According to the sources, he also owns a chain of multiplexes in the National Capital Region.

A police source said there had been allegations that Chadha sold liquor bottles above the maximum retail price in the state and the “proceeds went to politicians”.

A local politician said Chadha’s businesses could be worth over Rs 6,000 crore. “During Mayawati’s reign he came to the limelight and became a liquor baron. He also bought several hundred acres of land in the state,” he added.

Tax officials also searched the properties of two of Chadha’s alleged aides — Lalit Kapoor and Gurjeet Kochhar — in Delhi and questioned them about some transactions.

The Telegraph, 2 February, 2012, http://telegraphindia.com/1120202/jsp/nation/story_15082144.jsp


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