A team of CBI officers conducted raids at Sahani’s residences on the outskirts of Halisahar and New Town and grilled him for hours in connection with its probe into the Bardhaman Sanmarg Welfare Trust ponzi scheme, an agency official said.
Nearly Rs 80 lakh in cash was recovered from the New Town residence, and a country-made pistol was recovered from his Halisahar home, he stated.
An FIR in connection with the scheme was lodged by the CBI’s Economic Offences Unit in 2018.
The Supreme Court had in May 2014 directed the CBI to take over the investigations of all ponzi chit fund schemes that had duped lakhs of depositors in Bengal and neighbouring Odisha.
