Chit Fund Scam: CBI Files Two Supplementary Chargesheets In Court

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed two supplementary chargesheets in separate cases related to chit fund in the Court of Special CJM, CBI Cases, Bhubaneswar.

In the first case, a supplementary chargesheet was filed against 25 accused including Promoter & Director of Delhi-based private company and others including officials of sister companies on the allegations of misappropriation of the amount collected from the gullible public.

CBI had registered the case on the order of the Supreme Court in 2014 and started investigation against a group of companies. It was alleged that officials of the group allured the depositors with false promise of paying high rate of interest against their deposits but cheated them by running money circulation scheme without authorisation. The total amount collected from the public was around Rs. 862 crore. A chargesheet was earlier filed before the Special CJM, CBI Cases, Bhubaneswar in June 2019 and further investigation was continuing.

In the second case, a supplementary chargesheet has been filed against a private company based at Paschim Vihar, New Delhi and two others including its Director.

CBI had registered the case on the SC order in 2014 and taken over the investigation. It was alleged that the company was a money circulation networking company which allured the depositors by offering lucrative returns and collected huge money without having authorisation from the competent authorities, and cheated them. It had unauthorisedly collected deposits from the investors to the tune of around Rs. 63.72 crore from different places in India during 2006-10. Out of this amount, around Rs 13.49 crore was collected from investors of Odisha.