Overview

• Senior IAS officer Arvind Kumar appeared before the ACB on July 2 for his third interrogation in the ongoing funding probe.
• The FIR lodged in December 2024 charges misuse of ₹54.88 crore through unauthorised foreign remittances under the Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC sections 409 and 120B.
• Principal Secretary M. Dana Kishore alleges lack of Election Commission approval and blamed the transfers for an extra ₹8.06 crore tax liability on the HMDA.
• BRS leader K. T. Rama Rao underwent an eight-hour questioning on June 16 and remains subject to further summons as investigators pursue the case.
• BRS critics call the probe politically motivated while a related Enforcement Directorate money-laundering investigation against KTR proceeds separately.