New Delhi: The CBI, probing the coal blocks allotment scandal, has handed over a “diary” to the Supreme Court which was recovered from the offices of the Aditya Birla Group. Diary lists an estimated 1,000 payments purportedly made to politicians and MPs of several parties by a Birla company trust over a 10-year period.
This diary was recovered during the agency’s October 16 raids on the offices of the group following its FIR alleging corruption in the allotment of Talabira block to Hindalco.
The CBI has handed over this diary to the Supreme Court and is waiting for directions. The dates on which these payments have been made, sources said, are around the time of two Lok Sabha elections and several elections of state Assemblies.
Source also claimed that another diary, being described as a notebook, recovered by investigators of the Income Tax Department, shows receipts adding up to almost Rs 100 crore and top CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) the Birla group has agreed to pay taxes on these receipts.
While the CBI searched the offices of Birla group in four cities, the Income Tax Department was called in to help in the recovery of Rs 25 crore in cash from the group’s corporate office of New Delhi, Sources said.
At the same time, the Income Tax investigation wing confronted officials of the Aditya Birla group with another notebook’ listing receipts totaling almost Rs 100 crore. This “notebook” was recovered by IT investigators from the same address where they found the Rs 25-crore cash and, significantly, this amount is understood to be part of the listed receipts.
Bureau Report
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