New Delhi:
Sleuths probing the 2G spectrum allocation are now concentrating on the database of the elite Financial Intelligence Unit and Income Tax department to decipher the money trail in the scam.
Sources said the CBI has received some exclusive and critical tax and income related details from the I-T department regarding payments made by various entities who were allotted 2G spectrum.
The investigators have also asked the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to provide them with the Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and Cash Transaction Reports (CTRs) that the agency has collected during the period the spectrum allocation was in process.
The CBI, which has arrested former Telecom Minister A Raja and two other senior telecom department officials, is currently scrutinizing the transfer of funds by some Mumbai-based firms to some telecom companies.
The data has been provided by the I-T department to the CBI.
Sources said the investigators are trying to unravel the complex routes of payments which were made by certain entities involved in the 2G allocation, including some offshore payments.
The CBI, according to sources, is getting fresh leads by the I-T department in its probe to unravel the exact loss of money to the exchequer through alleged illegal allocation of the scarce spectrum frequency.