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Taxmen raid Indian houses
BOMBAY. July 20 IAP/AFP): Income tax investigators raided houses, secret properties and bank lockers
of Indian cricketers, officials and bookies Thursday as they probed a match-fixing scandal.
They searched the houses of player and former captain Mohammad Azharuddin in Hyderabad and Bombay, coach Kapil Dev's home in New Delhi and his in-laws' residence in Bombay. and the home and office of Jaginohan Dalmiya. former president of the International Cricket Council
“We are carrying out the operations in about 90 different places. In some places, we are making searches and In others surveys." said SC ParIJa. director general of income tax investigations.
"We are co-ordinating with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CB1). We have called them in a couple of hours after our raids They will be looking at the criminal angle, while we will investigate the undisclosed incomes." Parija said.
"By tomorrow, all the details will start coming out."
In the southern city of Hyderabad. an AFP reporter on the scene saw six tax officials enter Azharuddln's house in the upmarket Banjara Hills suburb at 11:00 am (0530 GMT).
Two officials left the house carrying a suitcase, which eyewitnesses said they took to a local bank before returning and rejoining the search.
Azharuddin was reportedly away in London for a charity match when the officials
swooped at his two homes in Bombay and Hyderabad. The Bombay house of Azharuddln's In-laws — actress Sangeeta Bi-Jlani's parents — was also raided.
Other cricketers' whose homes were raided included Ajay Jadeja. Nikhil Chopra. Navjot Sidhu and Ajay Sharma. Income Tax Department officials said on condition of anonymity.
"Countrywide searches and seizures under the Income Tax Act are being carried out at business and residential premises of renowned cricketers and high profile officials associated with cricket, along with certain bookies." said P K Sarma, director-general of Bombay tax department.
Sarma told AFP that 10 spots had been raided in the city, where a number of top cricketers live.
It is very, very early to say what we have found or how long the raids will last." Sarma said
We are going to scan-the papers and bank accounts of all these people." he added.
Income Tax authorities in India are allowed to laid homes and investigate when citizens appear to nave more wealth than their declared incomes can Justify.
The raids started simultaneously in several cities at 8:30 am time (0300 GMT) and continued for 1 1 hours. The investigators also searched houses that were earlier not known to belong to the cricketers and their families, said Sanna.
Sarma said investigators also searched the offices of a
company which has broadcasting rights for several international matches, but he would not name the company. Jewelry worth 1.1 million rupees (26.200 dollars) was seized from a bookmaker's residence, he said.
"The department has sealed bank lockers and identified the bank accounts." Sarina said in , a statement. "Incriminating material on papers and computer floppies has been identified and is being scrutinised."
Based on taped phone con- . versations. New Delhi police in . April charged former South African cricket captain Hansie । Cronje and his teammates Her-schelle Gibbs. Nicky Boje and Pieter Strydom with fraud, conspiracy. deceiving and defraud- I ing spectators.
Cronje admitted receiving about 10.000 dollars and said he had "forecast" some | matches, but he denied fixing them.
Cronje later said.Azharud-djn haJ. introduced him to an | Indian -bookie a charge the I former Indian skipper denied. |
The Central Bureau of Investigation. India's equivalent of I the FBI. has questioned top In- I dian players and some officials I in the past month as part of a t preliminary’ inquiry into the I match-fixing scandal. I
The CBI probe was ordered I by the federal government. I
Manoj Prabhakar, a former I Indian cricket player, has ac- I cused national coach Kapil of I offering him 2.5 million rupees I (57.340 dollars) as a bribe to I underplay during a 1994 match I against Pakistan. 1
Kapil has denied the accusa-tion.