New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is carrying out searches on the premises belonging to Congress leader D K Shivakumar in connection with an alleged corruption case. The agency has booked Shivakumar and others on the allegations of acquisition of disproportionate Assets. Searches are being conducted today at 14 locations including 9 in Karnataka, 4 in Delhi, one in Mumbai.Last year in August, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Shivakumar in connection with a money laundering case.The ED probe had followed Income Tax raids on the former Minister in 2017 and detection and recovery of unaccounted wealth. The ED later stepped in after the IT department came across instances of alleged money laundering.The IT department had raided Shivakumar in August 2017, among the other places, at Eagleton Golf Resort on the outskirts of Bengaluru where he had hosted a group of Congress MLAs from Gujarat to secure them from any poaching attempts during the Rajya Sabha polls in which Political Secretary to AICC president Ahmed Patel was a candidate.
ED, opposing the bail of Shivakumar during proceedings in September 2019 had alleged that Shivakumar needed to be quizzed relating to properties worth over Rs 800 crore and 317 bank accounts spread in 20 countries allegedly belonging to Shivakumar. ED alleged that the tainted money was transferred in the 317 bank accounts.Shivakumar had strongly denied the allegations describing the case against him a political vendetta.
