A day after he was arrested in connection with an alleged 2018 chit fund scam, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and Halishahar Municipality chairman Raju Sahani was on Saturday produced before a special CBI court in Asansol which sent him to the custody of the central investigating agency for five days, said CBI officials. He would be produced before the same court on September 8, they said.
Speaking with the media outside the court premises, Sahani claimed that Rs 80 lakh seized from his house was not his money. “I am not associated with all this (scam) in any way. You all will come to know about it soon,” Sahani told them.
The CBI raided Sahani’s Halishahar house on Friday afternoon and claimed to have seized various ‘deeds’, papers related to foreign investments and properties, Rs 80 lakh in cash and a country-made pistol. According to agency sources, the CBI told the court that Sahani was “one of the biggest beneficiaries of the ponzi firm”.
The CBI informed the court that they have, so far, found links of several properties — the estimated worth of which is Rs 2.75 crore — owned by Sahani, he has a bank account in Thailand and foreign investments abroad; besides these, the board of directors of the ponzi firm lent money to Sahani on several occasions, said agency sources.
The CBI suspects Sahani used the proceeds from the scam in acquiring properties, a notion that Sahani rebuffed.
CBI sources said that in 2014, for the first time, a complaint was…
