Completely baseless speculation. Originally published by a Tamil
daily reputed
for such trash
and was picked up by a couple of other websites. An official
statement by Mr.
Santosh Datta,
commissioner of income tax, in the following week, said that only
Rs. 1.5 crores
was unearthed
from all the 20 people investigated and he declined to give any
individual
details.
Interestingly, only Dina Mani, the Tamil daily from the Indian
Express group
carried this
official statement while all other publications chose not to
clarify on the wild
speculative frenzy that they revelled in, the previous week.