The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued notices to two leaders of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in connection with the multi-crore Seashore chit fund scam in the State.
The CBI sent the notices to former Law Minister and Nayagarh MLA Arun Sahu and former Health Minister and Mahakalapada MLA Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak for examination in connection with the ongoing probe into the Seashore chit fund scam, news agency ANI reported.
CBI sources said that while one of them was asked to depose on Monday, the other would appear on Wednesday.
The Seashore Group is one of the 44 chit fund companies in the State which have come under the CBI and Enforcement Directorate lens following an order of the Supreme Court to investigate their finances and transactions.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, the Orissa High Court granted advance bail to Baleswar BJD MP Rabindra Jena asking the lower court to fix the terms and conditions in an event of his arrest.
Anticipating arrest in the backdrop of searches conducted by the CBI in his houses at Baeswar and New Delhi, Jena, who is booked by the CBI for his alleged complicities with the Seashore chit fund company, had approached the High Court last year seeking anticipatory bail.
Justice Debabrata Dash allowed Jena’s prayer, making an observation that the trial court, where he will be produced in event of his arrest, shall release him on bail after imposing conditions as it may deem fit.