Safety personnel outdoors MK Stalin’s daughter Senthamarai Stalin’s residence throughout the raid.
Chennai: The Revenue Tax division has mentioned they’ve discovered “incriminating proof” of tax evasion in searches they performed on key individuals associated to the DMK management on Friday in Chennai, Karur and Coimbatore 4 days earlier than Tamil Nadu goes to vote.
A press release issued by the tax division nonetheless didn’t point out any money seizure however mentioned the searches had been meant to confirm if the three teams who had been raided allegedly assisted in political money distribution.
The teams and people raided embody those that run distilleries, breweries, actual property and solar energy operations as properly DMK chief MK Stalin’s son-in-law.
DMK MP RS Bharathi, nonetheless, claimed the Revenue Tax officers had solely discovered Rs 1.36 lakh from the house of Mr Stalin’s son-in-law.
A workforce of 25 Revenue Tax officers landed on the Neelangarai residence in Chennai of the opposition occasion chief’s son-in-law Sabareesan and solely daughter Senthamarai on Friday morning hours earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi held marketing campaign occasions in south Tamil Nadu.
Sabareesan, thought of a key strategist and adviser of Mr Stalin, is believed to have appreciable clout inside the household. Two different associates, Karthick, son of Anna Nagar DMK candidate Mohan, and G-Sq. Bala, had been raided.
There have been separate tax raids on former minister Senthil Balaji and his brother, Tiruvannamalai MP Annadurai and Thanjavur North DMK Union Secretary Murasoli. Revenue Tax sources advised NDTV that the searches had been primarily based on inputs on money motion.
