LUCKNOW: In a massive setback to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar's Rs 1,300 crore wealth has comes under the Income Tax Department scanner, one of the private news channel claimed.

According to information, Kumar’s fortunes grew exponentially between 2007 and 2014 — when his sister was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. His net worth rose from nearly Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 1,316 crore.

As per the income tax probe details which the channel have revealed a clear paper trail of round tripping through shell companies, taking mysterious multicrore loans and huge real estate investments.

Top government sources told channel that on the basis of these revelations, agencies will be probing these shell companies and "sweetheart deals".

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