
After the walkout, AIADMK Normal Secretary and the Chief of Opposition (LoP) within the state meeting, Edappadi Ok Palaniswami, demanded that the DMK authorities ought to resign. He additionally alleged that there might have been over Rs. 40,000 crores of corruption in TASMAC.
As per ANI, addressing the media, he stated, “ED has stated that there was corruption of greater than Rs 1,000 crore in TASMAC. The investigation is ongoing. It’s doable that there was over Rs 40,000 crore of corruption in TASMAC. The federal government did not take any motion even after the ED raid. We demand that the DMK authorities ought to resign over this.”
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Thursday (13 March), posted on the social media platform X in regards to the search operations at varied premises throughout many districts of Tamil Nadu underneath the provisions of PMLA, 2002, for offenses associated to TASMAC and its related entities or individuals.
Within the publish, ED wrote, “ED, Chennai has performed search operations at varied premises throughout many districts of Tamil Nadu on 06.03.2025 underneath the provisions of PMLA, 2002, for varied offences associated to Tamil Nadu State Advertising and marketing Company Restricted (TASMAC) and its related entities/individuals. In the course of the search operations, varied incriminating paperwork have been recovered and seized.”
ED, Chennai has performed search operations at varied premises throughout many districts of Tamil Nadu on 06.03.2025 underneath the provisions of PMLA, 2002, for varied offences associated to Tamil Nadu State Advertising and marketing Company Restricted (TASMAC) and its related entities/individuals.…
— ED (@dir_ed) March 13, 2025
Then again, BJP’s Tamil Nadu State President, Ok. Annamalai, additionally on X, posted that the ED has uncovered paperwork from the distilleries linked to the technology of unaccounted money of Rs. 1,000 crores, which have been paid as kickbacks.
He wrote within the publish on Thursday, “TN CM Thiru @mkstalin was spreading his delusional fears to divert individuals’s consideration from the Enforcement Directorate raid taking place in TASMAC, the Liquor Minister, and the liquor-supplying firms in Tamil Nadu.”
“The ED has uncovered paperwork from the distilleries linked to the technology of unaccounted money of ₹1000 Crores, which have been paid as kickbacks,” he added.
TN CM Thiru @mkstalin was spreading his delusional fears to divert individuals’s consideration from the Enforcement Directorate raid taking place in TASMAC, the Liquor Minister, and the liquor-supplying firms in Tamil Nadu.
The ED has uncovered paperwork from the distilleries linked to… pic.twitter.com/wkZ0XQPPzE
— Ok.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) March 13, 2025
TASMAC is wholly owned by the federal government of Tamil Nadu.
(with ANI inputs)