IT Dept. auditing tax returns of cricketers

NEW DELHI, JUNE 2. The IT Department is preparing a synopsis of the IT returns of cricketers and board officials, whose names have surfaced repeatedly during the investigations of the match- fixing, official sources said here today. The sources said, however, the Department was only collecting information and not planning to rush into investigation.

Income Tax Departments in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Hyderabad were making assessments of income of prominent cricketers and board officials, IT sources said.

The CBI also plans to rope in the Enforcement Directorate to investigate possible hawala transactions in the scandal, agency sources said.

Meanwhile, the CBI has initiated efforts to get in touch with a Delhi batsman, who is presently abroad playing a minor county, the agency sources said.

The name of this former Indian cricketer had surfaced during examination of bookies in Mumbai and other parts of the country, the sources said.

The CBI has approached the Income Tax Department to furnish income and assets details of some of the cricketers and bookies allegedly involved in the match-fixing controversy as per returns filed by them, IT sources said today.

``The Income Tax Department will fully coordinate with the CBI in the matter,'' the sources said, but denied that it had made any further investigation into the assets of cricketers like Mohd. Azharuddin, Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia.

It is reported that one of the leading cricketers had declared Rs. 16 crores as income under the Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS) in 1997-98.

- PTI

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