vijayawada a day after nabbing fraudster kukatla srinivas rao of sri abhaya gold police launched searches at the firm offices here on friday police are believed to have seized several documents pertaining to deposits and investments made by srinivas police have grilled srinivas who duped depositors of nearly rs 200 crore with the support of the documents seized from the companys corporate office srinivas wife ambika and a key manager in the company mahesh were detained by the police to crack the mystery of the assets owned by him according to sources a special team was deputed to nab one vinuthna a resident of hyderabad after getting information that srinivas had deposited huge amount in her name the woman is said to be the srinivass livein partner in hyderabad police sources said vinuthna is in possession of either cash or assets worth nearly rs 40 crore police seized documents pertaining to the lands purchased by srinivas at various places in the state central zone acp harikrishna who is monitoring the case said srinivas purchased hundreds of acres of lands in and around hyderabad with the monies collected from depositors with amounts getting stuck in the investments made on land the company failed to repay the money to the depositors said another police official police are surprised at the political backing garnered by srinivas despite the fact that his entire career was filled with criminal and cheating cases after completing intermediate at singarayakonda of prakasam district srinivas worked as an accountant with a ca in hyderabad and soon started his own auditing firm at singarayakonda without possessing any professional degree he was jailed in 2007 after failing to pay compensation to his first wife following their divorce he started a realestate venture on a government land and sold plots to gullible customers he shifted his base to vijayawada after the local revenue officials reclaimed the land from his realestate venture