Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) case under which Shivakumar has been arrested emerged from a chargesheet filed by the Income Tax (I-T) Department in 2018. The I-T Department charged him with tax evasion and hawala transactions before a Special Court in Bengaluru.
This chargesheet formed the basis for the case registered by the ED, which registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) naming Shivakumar and his four associates — Sachin Narayan (business associate), Sunil Kumar Sharma (proprietor of Sharma Transport), Anjaneya Hanumanthaiah (employee at Karnataka Bhawan, New Delhi) and N. Rajendra (a former State Government employee).
