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Taxmen looking for Koda offtrack on first day of search

Thu, Nov 5 09:31 PM

New Delhi, Nov 5 (PTI) Taxmen on the trail of former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda on the morning of October 31, landed at his newly alloted official bungalow behind the Rashtrapati Bhavan, only to find he has never moved in there. The IT officials reached 20, Willingdon Crescent (now Mother Teresa Crescent) as they had information that Koda, embroiled in alleged hawala transactions and illegal investments running into more than Rs 2000 crore, lived at this address instead of Jharkhand Bhavan where he was actually putting up.

"We reached 20, Willingdon Crescent on Saturday morning, as we had the information that the former chief minister was staying there," an official involved in the exercise said. "According to our information, the bungalow was recently alloted to him by the Union Urban Development ministry under the Member of Parliament quota," the officer said.

It was later found that he was still living at the Jharkhand Bhavan and had not shifted his belongings to the new address. The tax team along with a posse of Delhi police personnel then went to Jharkhand Bhavan to conduct the searches, they said.

The IT searches, which are still on since October 31, involved at least 400 IT sleuths at various locations in Jharkhand, Bihar, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi.

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