Rs 25 Crore Found From Tamil Film Financier As Actor Vijay Is Questioned
Chennai:
Officials of the Source of revenue Tax Division discovered Rs 25 crore with an impressive financier within the Tamil movie trade once they searched his homes as they also questioned actor Vijay yesterday. Source of revenue Tax officers searched the homes of AGS Cinemas and movie financier Anbu Cheliyan in Madurai and wondered Vijay in reference to an alleged tax evasion case. Vijay’s house in Chennai too was once searched the day prior to this.
Officers declare their probe printed unaccounted transactions between Anbu Cheliyan and Vijay. Vijay will proceed to be wondered these days as smartly.
AGS Cinemas had produced Vijay-starrer tremendous hit movie Bigil remaining yr.
The BJP in Tamil Nadu had antagonistic his movie Mersal, launched in October 2017, for holding dialogues noticed as vital of the Items and Services and products Tax (GST) and the notes ban.
The BJP had demanded cuts in Mersal, alleging that some dialogues painting “untruths” about GST and the centre’s Virtual India marketing campaign.
After the GST was once rolled out, some 1,000 cinema halls in Tamil Nadu had remained close for days in protest in opposition to imposition of native frame tax along with GST.
The day before today, Vijay was once summoned by means of tax officers from a capturing location in Cuddalore district. He was once no longer accompanied the officers as he left the positioning to go back house to Chennai for being wondered.
The searches have been performed in as many as 38 places in Tamil Nadu.