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April 2010

Koda probe I-T Officer shunted

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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Ujjawal Chaudhary, a senior
Income-tax Officer who led the probe into the multicrore Madhu Koda scam, may
have been on the verge of unravelling the link between politicians and hawala
traders when he was abruptly shifted this week.

Sources said the team led by
Chaudhary, who has been taken off the Koda probe and moved to the assessment
wing, had gathered strong evidence linking politicians and others to hawala
operators engaged in laundering black money abroad. Chaudhary was transferred
when raids were on at Chaibasa in Jharkhand.

Koda’s crores :

Raids on hawala traders
yield details of bank
accounts in Switzerland, which seem to belong to politicians I-T raids in
Jharkhand provide disclosures of hundreds of crores in concealed incomes of
bureaucrats and businessmen A Kolkata-based chartered accountant admits to
helping the scamsters fudge accounts payment of Rs.4.6 crore allegedly made by
cheque to functionaries of the Koda administration by an Andhra-based
construction firm. Koda case officer was not due for transfer.

(Source : The Times of India, dated 21-2-2010)

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