The earnings tax division has carried out search and seizure operations on a enterprise group working largely in North Bengal area of the West Bengal, which has revealed unaccounted earnings of over Rs 40 crore.

“The search motion revealed that the group was suppressing its yield and making unaccounted money gross sales of edible oils and DORB (de-oiled rice bran). A number of situations of money transactions not recorded in common books of account have been detected in the course of the search operation,” stated the finance ministry on Tuesday. Additional, handwritten notes, paperwork and digital evidences containing extracts of money transactions have been seized and parallel money books and bogus declare of bills have been discovered.

The enterprise group is managed by an individual with an lively political background, stated the ministry, including that it’s engaged in quite a lot of companies starting from manufacturing and sale of edible rice bran oil, mustard oil, DORB, various kinds of chemical substances and actual property. A complete of 23 premises unfold over Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Kolkata, Siliguri in West Bengal and Guwahati in Assam and surrounding areas have been coated.

A search operation was additionally carried out on the shut enterprise affiliate of the primary enterprise group, who’s a number one exporter of agro merchandise in Malda district of North Bengal. It resulted in seizure of unaccounted money of Rs 1.73 crore in addition to unaccounted jewelry price Rs 1 crore.

“Incriminating paperwork towards money funds in land acquisition to the tune of Rs 17 crore have been discovered. Particulars pertaining to unaccounted money receipts of about Rs 100 crore have been additionally discovered,” the ministry stated, including that additional investigations are in progress.