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LUCKNOW: Amid the crackdown on gangsters by the UP authorities to demolish their monetary empire created via illegal wealth, the Income Tax division’s Lucknow unit served a uncover to gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail on Thursday.
The uncover pertains to the present attachment of property measuring 0.207 hectare value Rs 12 crore allegedly owned by Mukhtar Ansari nonetheless registered inside the establish of Ganesh Dutt Mishra, who’s an employee in a company owned by Ansari.
The IT division issued the uncover in search of particulars of Ansari’s ties with Mishra for extra probe. Sources talked about as many as 23 further benami properties belonging to Mukhtar Ansari had been traced by the IT division and a part of the uncover served on him moreover dealt with it.
The property in question was found to be registered inside the establish of Mishra in Mauja Kupurpur in Ghazipur, the native district of Ansari.
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While scanning data, officers found that the land was registered on November 25, 2017. Mishra had purchased the land from Sushma and Geeta Rai for Rs 3.71 crore.
The perform of Mishra moreover surfaced all through a probe into financial transactions of a improvement agency named Aaghaaz Constructions by way of which Ansari’s partner Afsan Ansari has 1,500 shares, father-in-law Jamshed Raza 3,425 shares and son Abbas Ansari 19,170 shares.
The agency had taken a mortgage of Rs 1.06 crore inside the establish of Mishra from Union Bank of India and a property value Rs 90 lakh belonging to Mishra was mortgaged. “All these points have been elaborated and sent to Ansari for replies,” talked about the sources.
I-T division officers talked about that they started a probe after a case was registered in the direction of Ansari, his partner and son under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in 2021.
Police sources talked about that Ansari had purchased many properties inside the establish of Mishra.
So far, properties value Rs 290 crore owned by the gangster-politician and his accomplices from all through the state have been seized by the UP authorities. Meanwhile, immovable property value Rs 282 crore belonging to Ansari has been vacated by the police.
LUCKNOW: Amid the crackdown on gangsters by the UP authorities to demolish their monetary empire created via illegal wealth, the Income Tax division’s Lucknow unit served a uncover to gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail on Thursday.
The uncover pertains to the present attachment of property measuring 0.207 hectare value Rs 12 crore allegedly owned by Mukhtar Ansari nonetheless registered inside the establish of Ganesh Dutt Mishra, who’s an employee in a company owned by Ansari.
The IT division issued the uncover in search of particulars of Ansari’s ties with Mishra for extra probe. Sources talked about as many as 23 further benami properties belonging to Mukhtar Ansari had been traced by the IT division and a part of the uncover served on him moreover dealt with it.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The property in question was found to be registered inside the establish of Mishra in Mauja Kupurpur in Ghazipur, the native district of Ansari.
ALSO READ | Mukhtar Ansari: Crime lord whose grandfathers had been a Congress President and a battle hero
While scanning data, officers found that the land was registered on November 25, 2017. Mishra had purchased the land from Sushma and Geeta Rai for Rs 3.71 crore.
The perform of Mishra moreover surfaced all through a probe into financial transactions of a improvement agency named Aaghaaz Constructions by way of which Ansari’s partner Afsan Ansari has 1,500 shares, father-in-law Jamshed Raza 3,425 shares and son Abbas Ansari 19,170 shares.
The agency had taken a mortgage of Rs 1.06 crore inside the establish of Mishra from Union Bank of India and a property value Rs 90 lakh belonging to Mishra was mortgaged. “All these points have been elaborated and sent to Ansari for replies,” talked about the sources.
I-T division officers talked about that they started a probe after a case was registered in the direction of Ansari, his partner and son under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in 2021.
Police sources talked about that Ansari had purchased many properties inside the establish of Mishra.
So far, properties value Rs 290 crore owned by the gangster-politician and his accomplices from all through the state have been seized by the UP authorities. Meanwhile, immovable property value Rs 282 crore belonging to Ansari has been vacated by the police.
