After four-year long investigations, the agency claimed to have pieced together the money trail of the part of bribe worth Rs 4.4 crore allegedly received by Verma in lieu of his services to dilute income tax liability of Nanda's firm.
Verma, a 1999-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, was arrested on March 9, 2008 from JW Marriot Hotel in Mumbai, along with arms dealer Suresh Nanda, an accused in Naval War Room leak case, his son Sanjeev Nanda, key accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, and their chartered accountant Bipin Shah.
They were arrested while they were allegedly discussing dilution of I-T appraisal report of Nanda's company to evade tax liabilities, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has today filed a charge sheet against former Deputy Director (Investigation) of Income Tax and three private persons including a Chartered Accountant under various sections of the IPC dealing with conspiracy and other offences and the Prevention of Corruption Act in the in the court of Special Judge, CBI Cases, CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said here today.
She said it was alleged that the Income Tax officer had abused his official position and "deleted and diluted" the Income Tax appraisal report prepared by him to minimise the tax liabilities of Nanda's companies for obtaining pecuniary advantages.
CBI sources said in the charge sheet that it has given details of part payment of Rs 4.4 crore allegedly received by Verma for his services which were invested in a Goa-based resort through a benami deal in the name of Nitya Resorts. More