Couple had declared loss of Rs. 270 crores.
By Dileep Thekkethil
The Sheena Bora murder case once again took a sharp turn as a Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) report alleges Indrani Mukerjea and Peter Mukerjea of money laundering under their now defunct company INX Media.
According to a report published by The Hindu, CBDT has accused both Indrani and Peter of laundering foreign funds into INX Media through suspicious investment companies based in Port Louis, Mauritius.
The report says that incidents related to money laundering allegedly took place during 2007 and 2008.
The report was submitted to the Director-General of Income Tax on May 5, 2014, by Government of India Deputy Secretary in the light of an investigation conducted by CBDT officials.
The report has questioned dubious methods of transferring foreign and domestic capital into INX Group, which had declared a loss of Rs. 270 crores.
The murder of Sheena Bora allegedly took place three years ago. All three are accused of murdering Sheena by strangulating her, then cutting her into pieces, stocking the body pieces in a suitcase and later burning it in the forest to destroy evidence.
Indrani is also facing a separate case for attempt to murder Mikhail Bora – Sheena’s sibling – by giving him spiked drinks. Bora had told media that he was fortunate to be alive as he left the place early on the fatal day his sister got murdered.
The murder came to light when a former police officer overheard the driver of Indrani, Shyam Rai, talking about the murder to his friend in a bar and after which he was taken by police officers to the secret burial site where skeletal remains were unearthed.