Hyderabad:
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided a number of premises linked to Telangana income minister P Srinivasa Reddy and a few others as a part of a cash laundering case linked to an alleged smuggling racket of greater than Rs 100 crore, official sources mentioned.
About 5 premises within the state, together with Hyderabad, are being searched, they mentioned.
The cash laundering case stems from a Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) criticism in opposition to Reddy’s son, Harsha Reddy of the Raghav Group, who’s alleged to have bought seven watches price Rs 7 crore.
The funds for these are linked to an alleged hawala and crypto forex racket price Rs 100 crore and a person named A Naveen Kumar is underneath the scanner of the ED.
Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, a Congress chief, is the minister for Income, Housing, Info and Public Relations within the Telangana authorities.
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