FEMA case: ED sleuths break open & search Gangula's house

ED officials open up Gangula Kamalakar’s home

- U.Sudhakarreddy timesgroup.com

Hyderabad: High drama ensued on Wednesday when Enforcement Directorate sleuths broke open the locked door of Telangana backward classes welfare minister Gangula Kamalakar’s home in Karimnagar as part of searches in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violation case. The minister and his family were holidaying in Dubai at the time of the raid.

The ED reached Kamalakar’s doorstep days after the high-stakes Munugode byelection was won by TRS.

The sleuths forcibly opened the minister’s residence apparently after Gangula’s staff did not cooperate.

The house is also the official address of SwethaGranite Exports Pvt Ltd, owned by his brother, which allegedly evaded several crores in taxes on granite exports to China.