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Zubeen Garg Death Mystery: Event Manager’s Financial Dealings Under Scrutiny ; Assam Police To Joined By ED, IT To Inverstigate
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police has also unearthed more than 20-year-old financial irregularities allegedly committed by Mahanta during his earlier job at a non-banking financial company (NBFC).
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The Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax department are likely to join the Assam police in investigating alleged organised financial crimes and acquisition of benami properties by event manager Shyamkanu Mahanta, an accused in the death of Assam’s cultural icon Zubeen Garg.
According to media reports, The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police has also unearthed more than 20-year-old financial irregularities allegedly committed by Mahanta during his earlier job at a non-banking financial company (NBFC).
Sources privy to the development told PTI that officials from ED and the I-T Department have already visited the CID headquarters to look into the case.
The Assam police have initiated a separate probe against festival organiser Mahanta for “organised financial crimes” and “acquiring huge amounts of benami properties through money laundering”.
“The ED and the I-T Department have visited the CID office and discussed the case with senior officials. They are likely to join the probe with CID, and a formal decision may come very soon,” a source said.