‘Largest black money haul’: Rs 290cr recovered during I-T raid on distillery, counting still on

The Income Tax department’s raid on an Odisha-based distillery group and its associated entities is set to turn up a staggering Rs 290 crore in “unaccounted” cash, making it a record-breaking haul by any agency in a single operation. About 40 large and small currency-counting machines are being used to sort through the cash and more department and bank staffers have been deployed to finish the counting process. This is the highest-ever cash seizure made by an agency as part of an action against a single group and its linked entities.