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Official sources said the summons were served to Koda in the hospital in Ranchi where he was admitted following complaints of high blood pressure and stomach ache yesterday. Notices were also issued to seven of his associates by the ED, the sources said.
Both the ED and the Income Tax department have started scrutiny of documents recovered during the searches. These documents pertain to alleged hawala transactions and investments running into more than Rs 2,000 crore by Koda and his associates, they said.
While the ED will probe the investments and purchases done outside the country, the IT department would investigate the unaccounted money within the country. Various directorates of the IT department from Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nasik, and Jamshedpur have also sent documents seized by them and other evidence to the Investigations (Income Tax) Directorate in Jharkhand.
Koda and eight others have been accused of amassing property worth hundreds of crores of rupees including those in places like UAE, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Liberia.
The ED had earlier filed an Enforcement Case Information Report (equivalent to a FIR) before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Ranchi against Koda, his cabinet colleagues Kamlesh Singh, Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Bhandu Tirkey besides five others.
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how shameful and blind indian officials are. Every workers in the gulf knows investments of ministers in the tax havens. The amount of money Indians have put in the properties abroad by siphoning, laundering from India. These funds should have gone into construction of bridges, roads, creation of education institutions in India have been sipohoned by our ministers. Still government is blind about the fund siphoning.... This Koda will be left after some negotiation and money changing hands. See the Satyam Raju case, once people forget, they will be let off. America is a country where justice, law prevails, where even the CEO of Reliance can be put behind bars for life if he commits fraud in the country. India is know for business men and politicians with dubious character defrauding the nations tax money and laundering it for their personal greed.