IT sleuths raid CM's accountant

Bengaluru: Income Tax officials led multiple raids across the city on a real estate firm from the city.

Reportedly, the raids are being conducted since few days and the same has provided mulitple leads. One of the leads the I-T sleuths got was HB Sunil, Chartered Accountant who looks after the Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamyand other members of his family.

The income-tax department conducted raids on the home and office of Chartered Accountant HB Sunil in Kumara Park (West). Sunil maintains the accounts of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and some of his family members.

Sunil however, denied any such development.

This is the second time in three months that Sunil’s office and home is being searched by the income-tax department; he was last raided by in May, during the Assembly elections.

Sources suggest that the realty firm has close links with one of the senior ministers in the Congress-JD(S) coalition government. There were multiple raids on the real estate firm and its partner firm in the last one week.

The I-T department, which has however not issue any official statement on the raids conclude, a source said.