Mumbai-based model and television serial producer Preeti Bhatia was interrogated by the CBI in connection with the Odisha chit fund scam for the fourth time in 18 days on Thursday.

After a three-hour grilling, Preeti told reporters waiting outside the CBI office here that she had nothing to do with any scam. When asked if there is any truth in reports that she had taken Rs 4 crore from the Artha Tatwa (AT) Group and its CMD Pradeep Sethy, she said, “I am not linked to any scam.”

However, she chose to walk away when asked why she was being repeatedly summoned by the CBI. Bhatia had reached the CBI office along with her mother and her advocate at around 10.30 am.

It may be mentioned that the CBI, during the course of its investigation into the financial fraud by the AT Group, had reportedly found strong business links between Bhatia and Sethy. Sources said the investigators hope to be able to extract some crucial information from Bhatia that can help them with the money trail as also the AT Group’s links with ‘bigwigs’.

Bhatia, who has reportedly produced some documents to the CBI, had appeared before the investigating agency on Wednesday and earlier on September 23 and 25. She had been accompanied by her mother on two occasions while she had come alone on Wednesday.

Sources in the CBI said Preeti Bhatia, Pradeep Sethy and Indu Dewan were directors in a company called Prism Heights Films & Entertainment Private limited, which had its registered office in the Santa Cruz (West) area in Mumbai. The CBI had raided Bhatia’s house in Mumbai on August 16.