The Income Tax Department has conducted a significant search and seizure operation across 17 locations in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagpur, and Kolkata. The operation targeted a Visakhapatnam-based business group involved in vegetable oil extraction, manganese ore mining, and ferro alloy manufacturing. Incriminating documents revealing undisclosed cash transactions, inflated expenditures, suppressed sales, and under-invoicing were discovered, leading to the seizure of Rs. 3.0 crore in unaccounted cash and the detection of approximately Rs. 40 crore in undeclared financial dealings.
The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 25.08.2021 on a group based in Visakhapatnam at 17 different premises across Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagpur and Kolkata. The group entities are engaged in extraction of vegetable oils, mining of manganese ore, and manufacturing of ferro alloys.
During the course of the search operation, hand written diaries/documents, loose sheets depicting undisclosed cash transactions were seized. The group is inflating expenditure,
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FAQ :
The Income Tax Department carried out the search and seizure operation on 25.08.2021.
Searches were conducted on 17 different premises across Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagpur, and Kolkata, targeting a group based in Visakhapatnam.
The group is engaged in the extraction of vegetable oils, mining of manganese ore, and the manufacturing of ferro alloys.
Handwritten diaries, documents, and loose sheets depicting undisclosed cash transactions were seized. Evidence of inflated expenditure, cash sales of oil, under-invoicing of slag, suppression of sales, and inflation of expenditure were unearthed.
Unaccounted cash of Rs. 3.0 crore has been seized, and incriminating evidence relating to undisclosed financial transactions of approximately Rs. 40 crore has been detected.
No, further investigations are currently in progress.