Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate has received as many as 200 complaints alleging financial irregularities involving Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar, who is already being probed on a money-laundering charge.
“We have so far received about 200 such complaints from a large number of individuals alleging Shivakumar’s role in a range of financial irregularities. The agency is examining them to determine their authenticity,” The Hindu quoted a senior ED official on Tuesday.
It is said that the majority of these complaints are from investors in a housing project, who are fearing that their investments have been lost.
Called as the trouble-shooter of the Congress party, MLA DK Shivakumar came under the IT radar first, with raids at his offices and residences, which unearthed massive amount of unaccounted money. The money-laundering case was initiated based on a charge sheet filed last year by the Income-Tax Department alleging tax evasion and “hawala” transactions running into crores.
The probe so far has revealed that DKShi and his relatives have 317 bank accounts and the ‘benami’ assets may run into several crores. His daughter Aisshwarya too was recently probed by the ED with regard to a specific money transaction into her account. Shivakumar was sent to judicial custody on Tuesday, after completion of his ED custody.
