The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday that it has found several irregularities in the operation of Tamil Nadu government liquor company Tasmac, including manipulation in tender processes and unaccounted cash transactions worth Rs 1,000 crore through distillery companies.
The Economic Investigation Agency said in a statement that it found evidence of these corrupt conduct after raiding the employees of Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited (Tasmac) on March 6, distillery corporate offices and production plants.
ED sources had said on the day of raids that raids were also conducted against prominent colleagues associated with Balaji, Minister of prohibition and excise department.
The ED said that it has received a data related to transfer and posting, transport and beer bar license, order in favor of some distillery companies, additional fees of Rs 10-30 per bottle from Tasmac shops, its officials related to its officials.
It said that this data shows rigging in transport tender allocation of tasmac. This shows that the final successful bidder did not even introduce the expected demand draft before the application deadline. Tenders were provided in the final dialect despite being only one applicant.
The ED said that Tamil Nadu government liquor vendor Tasmac paid more than Rs 100 crore to the transporters annually. The Jachan Agency alleged that the search also found a large -scale financial cheating on a large -scale bottle -based bottles like SNJ, Calls, Acord, SAIFL and SAVA DISSICILI DISICILERI and Bottle, Bottles like Devi Bottle, Crystal Bottles and GLR Holding.
According to the ED, distillery systematically showed exaggerations and made fake purchases to manipulate more than Rs 1,000 crore in unaccounted cash.
