New Delhi: In more trouble for the arrested cricketers and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, the Income Tax department has begun a probe into alleged hawala and illegal cash transactions and will question them. The I-T department has got in touch with the investigators of the Delhi police and initiated "tax evasion and suspected hawala dealings" related probe into the latest allegations of spot-fixing.
The department, according to official sources, will question and record statements of all those who have been booked by special units of both the Delhi and Mumbai police.
Three IPL cricketers - India pacer S Sreesanth, players of the Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa and a number of bookies mainly from Mumbai and Delhi have been arrested after the IPL scandal was busted last Thursday.
The department "will move" for questioning the players and bookies arrested so far in the case and will work in close coordination with other law enforcement agencies working on this case, a department official said. I-T investigators will also go through the tax returns and transactions of the people who are found to have been involved in spot-fixing to detect unreported income, the official added....
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