Rs 100 crore Doctor Referral Nexus Exposed-IT Raids at top Medical Centres
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Among the centres raided include those belonging to a Padma Shri Awardee Doctor, state certain medical reports
BENGALURU: Income-Tax officials have unearthed a major multi-layered nexus between medical centres and doctors and an undisclosed income of Rs 100 crore after searches at a few IVF clinics and diagnostic centres here, the department said on Saturday.
It claimed doctors were being paid "for referring medical tests".
I-T sleuths, the department said, have seized about Rs 1.4 crore in cash and about 3.5 kg of jewellery and bullion during its three-day action against two in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres and five diagnostic centres.
They also seized foreign currency and detected foreign bank accounts with "deposits running into crores of rupees".
While the labs searches have declared an undisclosed income of over Rs 100 crore, the amount of referral fee in case of a single lab is more than Rs 200 crore, it said in a statement.
BENGALURU: Income-Tax officials have unearthed a major multi-layered nexus between medical centres and doctors and an undisclosed income of Rs 100 crore after searches at a few IVF clinics and diagnostic centres here, the department said on Saturday.
It claimed doctors were being paid "for referring medical tests".
I-T sleuths, the department said, have seized about Rs 1.4 crore in cash and about 3.5 kg of jewellery and bullion during its three-day action against two in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres and five diagnostic centres.
They also seized foreign currency and detected foreign bank accounts with "deposits running into crores of rupees".
While the labs searches have declared an undisclosed income of over Rs 100 crore, the amount of referral fee in case of a single lab is more than Rs 200 crore, it said in a statement.
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