In keeping with CBI resources, the groups additionally interrogated Bijpur MLA Subodh Adhikari and his members of the family for greater than 5 hours. The company has arrested Raju Sahani, Trinamool Congress chief and the chairman of the Halishahar municipality, in reference to its probe into the chit fund rip-off.

Raju Sahani, who was once produced in an Asansol courtroom Saturday, has claimed that the cash recovered from his area Friday doesn’t belong to him. The courtroom remanded him to CBI’s custody for 5 days of police custody. He’ll be produced in the similar CBI courtroom on September 8.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has claimed that Sahani, as a member of the board of Sanmarg Cooperative, a Burdwan-based chit fund company, was once one of the most largest beneficiaries of the ponzi rip-off. The company has mentioned, right through the investigation, it discovered that an quantity of roughly Rs. 20 lakh was once allegedly transferred into the account of a company owned via Sahani from a gaggle corporate of the believe.

It has alleged that this cash was once invested within the believe via deficient buyers. It additional alleged that the chairman of the believe was once operating an unlawful industry of gathering deposits from other folks with out the statutory permission of the regulatory government. The chairman is absconding.

In keeping with the CBI, Sahani had harboured the chairman of the believe in his area right through 2018-19 and facilitated him to open a checking account in 2018 which he later used to deposit the sale proceeds of a believe belongings after which routed the sale proceeds of roughly Rs. 75 lakh to Sahani’s account.

This was once allegedly carried out to facilitate the chairman to misappropriate the sale proceeds from the valuables which was once purchased with the cash other folks invested within the believe.