NEW DELHI: The income tax (IT) department recently summoned Jet AirwaysNSE -13.66 % founder Naresh Goyal for questioning in an alleged tax evasion case, said people with knowledge of the matter. This marks the first time an enforcement agency has summoned Goyal in connection with alleged irregularities in the grounded carrier. The investigation wing of the department had seized documents during searches at the airline’s Mumbai offices in September last year. The probe was completed in February and the report has been forwarded to the assessment wing.
The investigation wing discovered alleged irregularities in transactions between Jet Airways and its Dubai-based group firms, and bel