Mumbai: The total amount of cash haul in the high-profile Mumbai raid by the National Investigation Agency and the Income Tax department stands at Rs 10 crore. Initial investigation suggests that the money was intended for payment of rough diamonds.
The police are also valuing the jewellery that was seized. I-T officers have ruled out a possible terror angle.
This comes after NIA and the I-T department seized four trucks carrying crores of rupees in hundreds of boxes. The consignment was bound for Gujarat. In a joint raid on Monday night by the NIA and I-T department in Mumbai four trucks were intercepted, believed to be part of a Mumbai-Gujarat hawala operation. The contents are still being inventoried.
CNN-IBN sources say the trucks contained valuables worth hundreds of crores. "The trucks seized during the joint operation were carrying valuables worth crores of rupees in over 100 boxes. And with so much money that the income tax had to call for counting machines," said an official in the tax department.
The National Investigation Agency gave inputs that a large haul of unaccounted money was being sent to Gujarat. In the joint operation, the IT dept not only seized four trucks, but also detained over 40 people. Most of them are couriers. The detainees are suspected to be part of a hawala operation between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
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