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Raids on three former ministers
in Tamil Nadu

Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on Thursday raided the premises of three ministers in the erstwhile Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu.

They ex-ministers are DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan, K N Nehru and I Periaswamy.

A DVAC press release claimed documents for purchase of property worth Rs 123.5 million (Rs 12.35 crore) were recovered after the raids on the houses of former DMK minister K N Nehru and his relatives at Tiruchirapalli, Chennai, Tiruppur and Namakkal.

The property was purchased by Nehru and his relatives when he was a minister in the Karunanidhi government from 1996 to 2001, the release said.

Nehru, who was a small-time chilli merchant, had amassed huge wealth during his tenure as minister and had even acquired benami assets, including some in foreign countries like Germany and Italy, the DVAC claimed in the release.

The raids conducted on the premises of K Anbazhagan revealed that his son, who did not have adequate known sources of income, was running a construction company at Chennai, it claimed.

The raids on the house of another former DMK minister I Periyasamy led to the seizure of documents pertaining to the acquisition of property in the names of his relatives and his confidants, the release said.

DMK president M Karunanidhi said his party would meet the challenge of the AIADMK government legally while Anbazhagan described the raids as 'political vendetta'.

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