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CBI seeks Bengal police info on Rajeev Kumar location
By HT Correspondent | Kolkata
UPDATED ON SEP 16, 2019 01:38 AM IST
The Saradha Group ran an unlicensed fund, which went bust in 2013 and wiped out deposits from around 1.8 million, mostly poor, depositors. Ruling Trinamool Congress leaders have been jailed and questioned for their alleged involvement in an estimated Rs 2,460 crore scam.
Saradha case: TMC leader returns money to ED
By HT Correspondent | Kolkata
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2019 06:10 AM IST
The Saradha Group ran an unlicensed fund, which went bust in 2013 and wiped out deposits from around 1.8 million, mostly poor, depositors from West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
Facing Saradha probe, TMC’s Satabdi Roy sends ED draft of Rs 30.64 lakh. Not enough, says BJP
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2019 05:09 PM IST
Roy, also a popular Bengali film actor, has become the second leader from the ruling TMC to return the money earned from Saradha. In mid-June 2015, former TMC Rajya Sabha MP and Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty returned Rs 1.16 crore he had received from the same group to ED.
Saradha scam: CBI quizzes Bengal’s tourism secretary over ads to chit fund
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 22, 2019 10:02 PM IST
Saradha scam: Atri Bhattacharya is the first secretary level official to be questioned in relation with the R2,460-crore ponzi scam.
Ex-Kolkata top cop gets court breather
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON MAY 31, 2019 07:38 AM IST
Vacation bench judge Protik Prakash Banerjee said Kumar has to appear before the investigating agency whenever he is summoned.
MPS ponzi scheme raised Rs 26 billion, says ED in chargesheet
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata, Kolkata
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2018 12:13 PM IST
Amount mopped up by MPS is bigger than that mobilised by the Saradha group.
There is no sovereignty of any state in matter of corruption, says Arun Jaitley
By Ranjan Srivastava | Hindustan Times, Bhopal
UPDATED ON NOV 18, 2018 09:43 AM IST
Jaitley referred to the Saradha Group chit fund scam and the Narada TV sting operation that showed several leaders of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress accepting cash from a man purportedly representing a company.
Bengal Ponzi schemes’ victims struggle to get their money back
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya and Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JUL 08, 2018 12:07 AM IST
As many as 219 chit fund companies operated in Bengal at one time in the early 2010s; 147 of these, where people had together invested about ₹2.5 lakh crore, are now fighting cases that at are at various stages in the Calcutta high court.
ED summons Nalini Chidambaram again in Saradha ponzi scheme case
By PTI | PTI, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2018 03:01 PM IST
Officials said Nalini Chidambaram has been summoned at the Kolkata office of the central probe agency on June 20.
