Tag: Saradha chit fund scam

  • Suvendu writes to PM Modi looking for motion towards Mamata in Saradha rip-off

    Via Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to Top Minister Narendra Modi looking for his intervention for motion towards Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee within the Saradha chit fund rip-off.

    Labelling Mamata because the rip-off’s “largest beneficiary”, Suvendu expressed fear over the CBI’s “slow-paced” investigation and puzzled the central company’s “incomprehensible scepticism and hesitation” in getting the TMC supremo convicted.

    Adhikari, within the letter, alleged, “The CBI used to be passed over the duty of the investigation as it used to be a rip-off which concerned hundreds of crores amassed from the general public allegedly on account of the patronage of other people occupying top positions within the device.”

    “The CBI used to be anticipated to nail the individual occupying the best possible place within the device,” he wrote.

    Regarding Mamata’s ‘place within the device, he wrote, “Is that this why the CBI is hesitant? Or has the peak of her chair made them reluctant to behave towards her? However wasn’t it the principle reason why for delivering the investigation to the CBI? In order that the placement of the top & mighty does not deter them from appearing towards them and bringing them to justice.”

    Adhikari additionally alleged that Banerjee’s affiliation with Saradha is going again to the time when she used to be the railway minister within the UPA-2 govt.

    When the ruling Trinamool Congress alleged on a number of events that the CBI and different central businesses are operating on the behest of the BJP, Adhikari expressed his disappointment with the probe’s development a number of instances within the letter.

    Claiming that Mamata’s hyperlink to the rip-off is “smartly established,” Adhikari wrote, “Why is CBI going gradual relating to Mamata Banerjee and making no development as such? The loss of motion is ensuing within the erosion of the religion of the folk of West Bengal within the premier investigating company.”

    Concluding his plea, he wrote, “I’m hoping you (Modi) would believe this plea of the folk of West Bengal and spot to it that the culprits are punished strictly as in line with the regulation of the land.”

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to Top Minister Narendra Modi looking for his intervention for motion towards Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee within the Saradha chit fund rip-off.

    Labelling Mamata because the rip-off’s “largest beneficiary”, Suvendu expressed fear over the CBI’s “slow-paced” investigation and puzzled the central company’s “incomprehensible scepticism and hesitation” in getting the TMC supremo convicted.

    Adhikari, within the letter, alleged, “The CBI used to be passed over the duty of the investigation as it used to be a rip-off which concerned hundreds of crores amassed from the general public allegedly on account of the patronage of other people occupying top positions within the device.”googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The CBI used to be anticipated to nail the individual occupying the best possible place within the device,” he wrote.

    Regarding Mamata’s ‘place within the device, he wrote, “Is that this why the CBI is hesitant? Or has the peak of her chair made them reluctant to behave towards her? However wasn’t it the principle reason why for delivering the investigation to the CBI? In order that the placement of the top & mighty does not deter them from appearing towards them and bringing them to justice.”

    Adhikari additionally alleged that Banerjee’s affiliation with Saradha is going again to the time when she used to be the railway minister within the UPA-2 govt.

    When the ruling Trinamool Congress alleged on a number of events that the CBI and different central businesses are operating on the behest of the BJP, Adhikari expressed his disappointment with the probe’s development a number of instances within the letter.

    Claiming that Mamata’s hyperlink to the rip-off is “smartly established,” Adhikari wrote, “Why is CBI going gradual relating to Mamata Banerjee and making no development as such? The loss of motion is ensuing within the erosion of the religion of the folk of West Bengal within the premier investigating company.”

    Concluding his plea, he wrote, “I’m hoping you (Modi) would believe this plea of the folk of West Bengal and spot to it that the culprits are punished strictly as in line with the regulation of the land.”

  • Saradha chit fund rip-off: ED attaches property of P Chidambaram’s spouse, ex-CPM MLA

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday mentioned it has hooked up property price greater than Rs 6 crore of “beneficiaries” like Nalini Chidambaram, spouse of former Union finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram, former CPM MLA Debendranath Biswas and an organization owned by means of former Assam minister overdue Anjan Dutta within the Saradha cash laundering case.

    A provisional order for attaching movable houses price Rs 3.30 crore and immovable property price Rs 3 crore has been issued underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), the federal company mentioned in a commentary.

    Those houses have been owned by means of the Saradha Crew and folks, who have been beneficiaries of the “proceeds of crime” generated by means of the crowd, it mentioned.

    The “beneficiaries” come with Nalini Chidambaram, Debabrata Sarkar (East Bengal Membership legitimate), Debendranath Biswas (former IPS officer and ex-CPM MLA) and Anubhuti Printers and Publications owned by means of Dutta, a former Assam cupboard minister and president of state Congress birthday party.

    The cash laundering case relates to an alleged chit fund rip-off perpetrated by means of the Saradha Crew in West Bengal, Assam and Odisha until 2013.

    “The quantum of overall cash mobilised by means of this crew corporate is ready Rs 2,459 crore out of which almost Rs 1,983 crore stays unpaid to the depositors until date except the hobby quantity,” the ED mentioned.

    Property price about Rs 600 crore had been hooked up by means of the Enforcement Directorate on this case until now.

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday mentioned it has hooked up property price greater than Rs 6 crore of “beneficiaries” like Nalini Chidambaram, spouse of former Union finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram, former CPM MLA Debendranath Biswas and an organization owned by means of former Assam minister overdue Anjan Dutta within the Saradha cash laundering case.

    A provisional order for attaching movable houses price Rs 3.30 crore and immovable property price Rs 3 crore has been issued underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), the federal company mentioned in a commentary.

    Those houses have been owned by means of the Saradha Crew and folks, who have been beneficiaries of the “proceeds of crime” generated by means of the crowd, it mentioned.

    The “beneficiaries” come with Nalini Chidambaram, Debabrata Sarkar (East Bengal Membership legitimate), Debendranath Biswas (former IPS officer and ex-CPM MLA) and Anubhuti Printers and Publications owned by means of Dutta, a former Assam cupboard minister and president of state Congress birthday party.

    The cash laundering case relates to an alleged chit fund rip-off perpetrated by means of the Saradha Crew in West Bengal, Assam and Odisha until 2013.

    “The quantum of overall cash mobilised by means of this crew corporate is ready Rs 2,459 crore out of which almost Rs 1,983 crore stays unpaid to the depositors until date except the hobby quantity,” the ED mentioned.

    Property price about Rs 600 crore had been hooked up by means of the Enforcement Directorate on this case until now.

  • ED freezes accounts of former Bengal DGP in Saradha chit fund rip-off

    Through Specific Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: Swinging again into motion after 8 years, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday introduced a recent probe into the Saradha chit fund rip-off, which caused a large-scale political uproar in West Bengal, and iced over two accounts of Rajat Majumdar, the previous director basic of police of West Bengal and erstwhile legit of the accused corporate.

    Majumdar, who was once vice-chairman of Saradha Team, was once interrogated on the central company’s Salt place of business until overdue on Saturday night time. Sleuths probing into the alleged rip-off recorded the observation of the previous IPS officer.

    “The verdict of freezing Majumdar’s financial institution accounts was once taken after interrogating Majumdar. In long term, we would possibly summon extra people who find themselves believed to be the beneficiaries of the rip-off,’’ mentioned an ED legit.

    The ED’s motion within the Saradha rip-off got here an afternoon after Calcutta Top Courtroom’s pass judgement on Abhijit Aganguly, who’s listening to the college recruitment rip-off case listening to, made a remark that he does no longer need the destiny of this probe to be like that of the Saradha rip-off.

    In September 2014, the CBI had arrested Majumdar in reference to the company’s ongoing probe into the Rs 2,000 crore rip-off.

    In February subsequent 12 months, he was once launched on bail.  

    Majumdar was once additionally the ruling Trinamool Congress’s vice chairman when he was once arrested.

    The ED had registered a case towards Saradha Team of Corporations in 2013 at the foundation of the FIRs by way of Kolkata police.

    The central company have hooked up property of the corporate value over Rs 35 crore, which incorporates automobiles, constructions, residences, and bungalows in different districts throughout Bengal.

    KOLKATA: Swinging again into motion after 8 years, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday introduced a recent probe into the Saradha chit fund rip-off, which caused a large-scale political uproar in West Bengal, and iced over two accounts of Rajat Majumdar, the previous director basic of police of West Bengal and erstwhile legit of the accused corporate.

    Majumdar, who was once vice-chairman of Saradha Team, was once interrogated on the central company’s Salt place of business until overdue on Saturday night time. Sleuths probing into the alleged rip-off recorded the observation of the previous IPS officer.

    “The verdict of freezing Majumdar’s financial institution accounts was once taken after interrogating Majumdar. In long term, we would possibly summon extra people who find themselves believed to be the beneficiaries of the rip-off,’’ mentioned an ED legit.

    The ED’s motion within the Saradha rip-off got here an afternoon after Calcutta Top Courtroom’s pass judgement on Abhijit Aganguly, who’s listening to the college recruitment rip-off case listening to, made a remark that he does no longer need the destiny of this probe to be like that of the Saradha rip-off.

    In September 2014, the CBI had arrested Majumdar in reference to the company’s ongoing probe into the Rs 2,000 crore rip-off.

    In February subsequent 12 months, he was once launched on bail.  

    Majumdar was once additionally the ruling Trinamool Congress’s vice chairman when he was once arrested.

    The ED had registered a case towards Saradha Team of Corporations in 2013 at the foundation of the FIRs by way of Kolkata police.

    The central company have hooked up property of the corporate value over Rs 35 crore, which incorporates automobiles, constructions, residences, and bungalows in different districts throughout Bengal.