Reportedly searches conducted by the Income Tax department in tamilnadu has led to the recovery of Rs 65 crore in cash from financier Anbu Chezhian's properties. Meanwhile sources in the Income Tax department have confirmed that Rs 50 crore was recovered from Anbuchezhian's property in chennai and Rs 15 crore from his madurai property. Furthermore the ongoing searches are all linked to AGS's latest production bigil, starring vijay in dual roles as a don and a football coach. Since wednesday, I-T officials have been conducting searches in over 20 locations related to the AGS Group, which includes AGS Cinemas and AGS Entertainment.
Accordingly Anbuchezhiyan is a well known cinema financier, notorious for harassing his clients to pay back the money loaned to them. In november 2017, he was booked for abetment of suicide over the death of tamil ashok kumar who had alleged harassment over debts. It is speculated that the financier may have given funds to AGS Cinemas.
Moreover actor vijay was approached by the department when he was shooting in Neyveli for his upcoming film master, and was summoned to his residence in ECR for questioning. Six to eight I-T officials are still present at the actor's residence. A senior I-T official told TNM under the condition of anonymity "Questioning is still underway. There have been no significant findings from Vijay's house". The actor is being questioned about his income from bigil and the film's overall profits.
