CBI has recovered 25 crore rupees of of unaccounted money during searches at the HINDALCO office in Delhi. The raids followed the agency probing the Coal Scam lodged a case against Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former Coal Secretary P C Parekh yester day.

The charges levelled against them include criminal conspiracy and corruption in connection with alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks eight years back.

Yesterday, CBI teams carried out coordinated searches at nearly six locations in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar after registering the fresh FIR – 14th in the multi-crore scandal.

The agency has booked Birla as a representative of Aditya Birla Group and his group company, aluminium maker Hindalco, for alleged corruption in the allocation of Talabira two coal blocks in Odisha. The blocks were allocated for power production during a meeting of the screening committee.