The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a petition before the District and Sessions Judge Court here seeking permission to take Manoj Pattnaik, one of the directors of the Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, on a seven-day remand for interrogation in the money trail case.
Pattnaik was arrested by the police in connection with the company’s financial fraud on May 31 last year. He was handling the company’s gold trading business. The director had managed to get an anticipatory bail in the fraud case, but he was rearrested by the police for his alleged link with the company’s gold trading business.
Earlier, the CBI had taken Pattnaik on a five-day remand to interrogate him in larger conspiracy angle in the financial fraud committed by the AT Group. CBI sources said that Pattnaik had reportedly embezzled nearly `4 crore of AT funds.