Bengaluru: Barely nine months after the Income Tax Department raided Congress trouble-shooter and Kanakapura MLA D.K. Shivakumar and his brother, Bengaluru Rural MP D.K. Suresh, the CBI yesterday searched their aides in connection with a 2016 case of illegally exchanging Rs. 10 lakh of demonetised currency in Ramanagaram “by fabricating requisition slips”.
By late Wednesday evening, CBI managed to procure search warrants against 11 confidants of Shivakumar and Suresh. CBI conducted raids yesterday morning in five locations belonging to four people. One of the prime accused in the case, against whom a search warrant was secured, is Suresh’s PA Padmanabaiah.
