The troubles of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood seem to be increasing. The team of the Income Tax Department is raiding 28 places connected with Sonu Sood for the fourth consecutive day. Sources have claimed that the department has found strong evidence of huge tax evasion during the raids. It is reported that the team of the Income Tax Department has put raids together in Mumbai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Jaipur, Delhi, and Gurugram.
According to the Income Tax Department, the team has come to know about tax evasion of about 20 crores during the investigation. Explain that during the search, the Income Tax Department team has recovered Rs 1 crore 8 lakh in cash, while 11 lockers have also been found.
Sources have claimed that the Income Tax Department has found strong evidence of huge tax evasion in this raid. Tax manipulation is related to Sonu Sood’s personal finance. According to the information so far, a big tax error has also been seen in the fees received from the films. After these irregularities, now the Income Tax Department is also investigating the accounts of Sonu Sood’s Charity Foundation. According to the Income Tax Department, the actor has routed his unaccounted income through fake companies. In the investigation so far, the team has detected 20 fake entries.
From 21 July 2020 till now, the charity foundation created by the actor has collected around Rs 18.94 crore as a donation, out of which about Rs 1.9 crore was spent in various relief works while Rs 17 crore is still lying. During the investigation, it has also been found that in violation of FCRA, 2.1 crore rupees were deposited in this charity foundation of Sonu Sood.
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According to the Income Tax Department, in this episode of investigation, several locations of Infrastructure Group of a businessman close to Sonu Sood in Lucknow have also been raided. Sonu Sood has also invested in many real estate projects of this group, due to which he has also been accused of hiding the earnings. It has been found in the investigation that this group has also misappropriated crores of rupees through bogus billing.
The Income Tax Department team has recovered documents related to such misappropriation of about Rs 65 crore. Along with this, it has also been learned that this infrastructure group has also done cash and digital transactions worth crores of rupees, which are not shown in the account book. 175 crores This company has also tried to steal by showing investment in a fake infrastructure group of Jaipur.