New Delhi: CBI has registered its first set of FIRs in connection with the multi-crore Saradha Chit fund scam. A total of 3 FIRs have been filed in West Bengal and 43 FIRs have been filed in Odisha which includes allegations of cheating, criminal breach of trust and conspiracy.
The CBI is likely to file more FIRs in the case. The alleged scam involves a fraud of thousands of crores and has allegedly cheated over 15 lakh depositors in Bengal and its adjacent state of Odisha.
The Supreme Court had transferred the case to CBI earlier in May considering the volume of the scam that goes beyond the state boundaries, following which the CBI had constituted a SIT and gathered various documents related to the investors who were duped by a number of companies under the Saradha Group.
CBI has named Rajya Sabha MP of Trinamool Congress Kunal Ghosh in one of the FIR filed on Wednesday. The MP was arrested on 23 November 2013 in connection with the scam.
The scam came to light in April 2013 after which its promoter Sudipta Sen was arrested, along with two others, from Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir by West Bengal Police officials.
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