ACB raids: Cash, documents worth crores seized
Bengaluru, October 05: Following complaints from people against two government officials on amassing illegal assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths conducted raids on the house and offices of those two government officers in eight places simultaneously and recovered cash and documents of properties worth crores, on Friday.
On Friday morning, the ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) chief development officer T.R. Swamy and Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) engineer N.S. Gowdaiah.
The ACB officials conducted raids on the Greens apartment at Malleshwara, houses of two relatives and KIADB office of T.R. Swamy. House of N.G. Gowdaiah, relatives houses, another house in Gubbi in Tumkur district and BDA office and recovered cash and records worth crores from them.
ACB officials shocked
More than 20 ACB officials raided on the houses and office of T.R. Swamy and found more than Rs 4.5 crore cash with the denomination of 2,000, 500 and 200. Apart from this, important records worth crores, three luxury cars including Rs 30 lakh worth car. The officials also found heaps of records and files at a parked Omni car in at Mantri Mall Green Apartment basement and the ACB officials suspected that he might have hid the records of illegal activities.
T.R. Swamy lives in 1405 number apartment, while his sister lives in 1504 number apartment. As the ACB officials found cash worth crores, they brought three currency counting machines to count the currency notes found in those apartments.
IGP visits
ACB IGP Chandrashekar visited the house of T.R. Swamy where ACB officials conducted raids and found cash and records worth crores. He said that the ACB is verifying on the allegation that Swamy had thrown a bag from his house during ACB raid.
Booty at Gowdaiah’s house
In the name of family members of Gowdaiah, he has two houses, 8 sites, 14 apartments, 3 kg gold, 10 kg silver, three cars, three bikes, Rs 75 lakh cash and Rs 30 lakh deposits in various banks. Apart from this, 4.5 kg gold ornaments found in the house of his father-in-law, said ACB official sources.
Heaps of currency notes?
In the name of T.R. Swamy’s family members and relatives, he has 8 houses, 10 sites, 10 acre of agriculture land, 1.6 kg gold, three cars, and Rs 4.52 crore cash was found during the raid.
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Iran''''s Mexico Embassy says Iran is negotiating with FIFA to move World Cup matches
Mexico City (AP): Iran's Embassy in Mexico on Tuesday said the country is negotiating with FIFA to move Iran's World Cup matches from the U.S. to Mexico after President Donald Trump discouraged the team from attending the tournament, citing safety concerns.
It was unclear whether such talks are happening with FIFA, which did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Iranian officials have previously said it is up to FIFA and the U.S. to keep the team safe during the World Cup.
The Embassy posted a statement attributed to Iranian soccer federation president Mehdi Taj saying Iran wants to move its group stage matches to Mexico to ensure the safety of players and officials.
“When Trump has explicitly stated that he cannot ensure the security of the Iranian national team, we will certainly not travel to America,” the statement said. “We are currently negotiating with FIFA to hold Iran's matches in the World Cup in Mexico.”
The World Cup is being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Iran is scheduled to play against New Zealand on June 16 and Belgium on June 21 in Inglewood, California, before finishing group play in Seattle against Egypt on June 26.
Moving the games would be unprecedented less than three months before the start of the World Cup.
Trump said last week that the Iran team was welcome at the World Cup despite the ongoing war in the Middle East but “I really don't believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety.”
Iran has sent mixed signals about its participation in the tournament after the U.S. and Israel launched attacks that killed the Islamic republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures.
Sports minister Ahmad Donyamali told state TV last week that it was not possible to play "due to the wicked acts they have done against Iran.”
But after Trump's post the national team said on Instagram that “no one can exclude” it from the tournament and a government spokesman in Tehran stressed in it was the responsibility of FIFA and the U.S. as a co-host nation to keep players safe and secure.
“FIFA is the organizer of the World Cup,” Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said. “When warnings are issued at the highest level about the environment being unsafe for Iranian football players, this indicates that the host country apparently lacks the capacity and ability to provide security for such an important sporting event.”
Soccer is followed passionately in Iran, a nation of more than 90 million people which has qualified for seven men's World Cups and each of the past four editions. The team is ranked No. 20 in the world by FIFA and behind only Japan from Asia.
FIFA has not commented in recent days beyond an Instagram post by president Gianni Infantino last week that he'd received assurances from Trump that Iran was welcome at the tournament.
