Rs 650-cr unaccounted assets unearthed during I-T raids on Siddhartha?

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September 25, 2017

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Income Tax sleuths, searching former chief minister S M Krishna’s son-in-law V G Siddharth’s house and business establishments in Bengaluru and elsewhere in the state and country, have reportedly unearthed Rs 650 crore worth of unaccounted assets. 

Siddharth is the chairman and managing director of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd and also has other business interests in financial services (way2wealth) and luxury resorts. I-T sleuths raided his house and other firms on September 21 in Bengaluru, Hassan and Chikkamagaluru in Karnataka, Chennai and Mumbai. the searches ended on Sunday.

“The searches involving coffee, tourism, information technology and other areas concluded with an unearthing of Rs 650-crore assets. The detection of undisclosed income is expected to be a much higher figure,” stated a senior I-T officer.

There are a number of other issues, including violations of other statutes, on which there is no disclosure, but relevant evidence has been found. These will be pursued, an official stated.

Locations searched in Bengaluru included the group’s head office at UB City on Vittal Mallya Road, Siddharth’s house in Sadashivanagar, and his establishments at Rajarajeshwari Nagar and Bagmane Tech Park in C V Raman Nagar. The sleuths seized documents from the office of Coffee Day Global on K M Road in Chikkamagaluru, ABC Coffee Curing, on Belur Road, two estates in Mudigere taluk, a residential school in Chikkamagaluru, and the Serai resorts.

Siddharth, who hails from a family that owns coffee plantations spread over 10,000 acres in Chikkamagaluru, is the founder-owner of the Cafe Coffee Day chain, India’s largest coffee retail chain.

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Chennai, Jun 10: DMK MLA J Anbazhagan who had tested positive for coronavirus and was on ventilator support from June 3 passed away at a hospital in Chennai on Wednesday.

Coincidently, today is the 62nd birthday of the MLA.

"Anbazhagan J, who has been fighting for his life with severe COVID 19 pneumonia rapidly deteriorated early this morning. In spite of full medical support including mechanical ventilation at our COVID facility, he succumbed to his illness. He was declared dead at 08:05 hours on the 10th of June 2020," the hospital said in a statement.

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Later in 2011, he was elected to Tamil Nadu Assembly from Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni seat. The DMK leader was re-elected from the same constituency in 2016.

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