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Tax raids target A.R. Rahman, Tamil film stars (LEAD)
Indo-Asian News Service
Chennai, Oct 26 (IANS) The income tax department Wednesday seized large amounts of cash and jewellery during a series of raids at the houses of 20 prominent Tamil film personalities, including music composer A.R.
Rahman.
As much as Rs.300 million ($6.6 million) and gold jewellery were recovered during the search and seizure operations, officials said.
The search operations, which began at 8 a.m., were an attempt to uncover "unaccounted money" in the Tamil film industry, Chief Commissioner Santosh Dutta told reporters.
Raids were carried out at Rahman's house in Kodambakkam, the film city in Chennai, as well as at the houses of two other music directors -- Ilayaraja's son Yuvan Sankar Raja and Harris Jayaraj.
Raids were also carried out at the homes of leading actors Vijay, Vikram, Trisha and Sneha.
Tax sleuths also searched the homes of Shankar, the director of the hugely successful film "Anniyan", and producer Oscar Ravichandran.
Dutta said preparations for the raids began two months ago and some 300 personnel were mobilised for the search operations.
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