Income Tax department officials today searched 33 premises belonging to various business groups in Tamil Nadu on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion and possible links to shell companies.
Various companies involved in textile, real estate and cinemas were searched by officials, sources said.
The search comes two weeks after department officials were involved in one of the largest searches in the country under Operation Clean Money in Tamil Nadu. The searches were done across Tamil Nadu with claims that over ₹1,400 crore of tax evasion was unearthed.