IT summons: BCCI officials submit IPL documents

Mumbai, Apr 23 (PTI) On a day I-T officials
intensified its probe into IPL affairs, top BCCI
representatives responded to summons and furnished to the
department details of share holding pattern, player auction
and bidding process of all eight original IPL franchisees.
"The BCCI has complied with the summons and submitted
the documents relating to its original eight franchisees," an
IT official closely involved in the exercise told PTI.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has been
under pressure following allegations of betting, match-fixing,
wrong doings in bidding processes and illegal money routed
through foreign shores in the IPL franchisees.
Indian Premier League's Chief Executive Officer Sundar
Raman represented the Cricket Board and some officials of the
International Management Group, the event managing company
which organises the T20 extravaganza, were also present.
There was no official word on what transpired during
the interaction between IPL officials and IT investigators.
The summons was issued on April 16 and the deadline
was to end on Friday.
The eight original franchisees are: Reliance
Industries Limited for Mumbai franchise at USD 111.9 million;
UB Group for Bangalore at USD 111.6 million; Deccan Chronicle
Holdings for Hyderabad at USD 107.01 million; India Cements
for Chennai at USD 91 million, GMR for Delhi at USD 84 m; Red
Chillies Entertainment (Shah Rukh Khan/Juhi Chawla/Jay Mehta)
for Kolkata at USD 75.09 million; Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia,
Mohit Burman and Karan Paul for Mohali at USD 76 million and
Emerging Media (UK) for Jaipur at USD 67 million.
In Kolkata, the I-T department issued notices to
Knight Riders Sports Private Limited and the Gameplan Sports
to appear before it in connection with the recent search
operations at the offices of the two entities.
In Mumbai, I-T officials surveyed the offices of
Kings XI Punjab and scoured documents relating to monetary
transactions with IPL.
IT sleuths also visited the Mohali office of the team
but said it did not find anything incriminating.
According to IT sources, the BCCI was asked to produce
the bidding documents of all eight franchisees, details of
ownership/shareholding of each franchise, names, addresses of
individuals, entities owning the franchise and their contract
with the IPL.(MORE) PTI SIB
KAB


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