Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday registered a money laundering case against senior Congress leader in Karnataka and Irrigation Minister D K Shivakumar and few others on the basis of an alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions case.
According to official sources, the case has been filed based on a charge sheet filed by the Income Tax Department against him early this year before a special court here on charges of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions worth crores of rupees.
The IT Department has accused Shivakumar and his associate Sunil Kumar Sharma of transporting the huge amount of unaccounted cash on a regular basis through hawala channels with help of three other accused such as Sachin Narayan, Anjaneya Hanumanthaiah and N Rajendran.
The complaint was filed after the department found Rs 8.59 crore in cash at four Delhi properties, during searches on nearly 60 premises linked to him and his associates in August 2017.
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