The Enforcement Directorate probe into alleged financial transactions between some senior Income-Tax officials and the Sandesara group of companies has thrown up evidence showing that crucial facts pertaining to the searches against the companies in 2011 were allegedly not brought on record.
The ED, an official said, has found that the Income Tax Department officials had not even recorded, or brought on record, the statement of the person who maintained the said diary in which the alleged transactions, running into crores, were mentioned. The person’s statement has now been recorded by the agency.
An internal vigilance inquiry that indicted several Income-Tax officials has also not brought out all the related facts and focuses on the diary only. The inquiry was ordered in 2014 and the report was submitted in September 2016.