New Delhi: Income Tax officials raided the offices of Shiv Naresh Sports Pvt Ltd and Satya Prakash Construction in connection with allegations of corruption in Commonwealth Games. The nation-wide raids on premises of the contractors began early on Thursday morning.
The raids were carried out across the national capital region and Delhi. Raids are also being in Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore. Over 50 teams of Income Tax are involved in the carrying out the raid at about 40 locations across the country.
While Shiv Naresh Sports had laid the synthetic tracks for the Commonwealth Games, Satya Prakash Construction was involved landscaping.
Officials said that the Income Tax department would specifically look into the contracts awarded by the CWG Organising Committee and the role of its officials and contractors including charges of bribing.
The I-T department officials are seizing documents related to all the tenders and contracts that were granted to various consortiums for the Games to detect possible evasion of taxes through over-invoicing and fudging of accounts.
The department had on October 19 carried out similar searches on four major consortiums, including those related to BJP member Sudhanshu Mittal, which had bagged contracts worth Rs 700 crore.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already appointed former Comptroller and Auditor General of India VK Shunglu to investigate into the allegations of financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games.
The Enforcement Directorate had on Wednesday questioned Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Director General VK Verma for over nine hours in connection with the alleged financial irregularities in the Queen's Baton Relay in London in 2009.
(With inputs from PTI)
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