The Income Tax (IT) department has unearthed details of illegal property running into crores of rupees and cash amounting to Rs40 crore from the Raipur-based IAS official BL Agrawal's premises.
While similar raids on Bhopal-based IAS couple, Arvind Joshi and Tinu Joshi, led the department recover over Rs3 crore in cash.
Besides recovering details of properties and cash amounting to Rs300-400 crore from Agrawal, the IT officials also found nearly 250 passbooks and cheques in the name of people of Kharora village from his chartered accountant's office, IT sources said today.
All these bank accounts were opened in the name of villagers without their knowledge by Agrawal and his family members. Nearly Rs40 crore were deposited in banks as per entries found in these passbooks, an official said.
Agrawal had also established 30 fictious firms through which hawala transactions were conducted by transferring the amount deposited in these accounts.
In one of the accounts, $5,000 were also deposited by him, the sources said.
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