Click to play videoNew Delhi: The investigations into Pune businessman Hasan Ali’s antecedents has been put on fast track.
In the latest development, passports of six people including Ali, his family and brother of the late Priyamvada Birla of the Birla business house, Kashinath Tapadia have been impounded.
Ali – whose unaccounted wealth of Rs 35,000 crore led to India’s biggest ever Income Tax raids – was on Sunday questioned by the Pune Police.
The statement was recorded for four hours on Saturday at Ali's home in Pune. Ali is said to have made the statement after the Pune police issued a notice asking him to explain his unaccounted transactions.
During the cross-questioning, Ali denied any involvement in the Hawala scandal.
However, he reportedly confirmed that the I-T Department has freezed four of his Indian accounts.
Sources say that one of these accounts with ABN-AMRO bank has Rs 30 crore in it.
Sources at the Enforcement Directorate also told CNN-IBN that over the last two months, the ED had sent four notices to Ali.
The Income Tax department had also sent him three notices.
Ali didn't respond to any of them, so a directive was issued to all airports against him and his associates.
Ali is also said to have made a trip to the I-T office in Mumbai on March 5, but no details are known yet about that visit.
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