The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch interrogated nonbanking financial institution Astha International’s State head Subhranshu lenka, who was taken on a two-day police remand from Monday.
The Crime Branch sleuths also prepared to go the company’s head office in Surat in Gujarat to investigate more into the case. The Crime Branch officials quizzed lenka about his investments, illegal money circulation, property details and involvement of others in the chit fund scam.
Even on the day of the interrogation, more complaints against lenka and his associates were being lodged at the EOW office here. The investors came with a fresh allegation that lenka was managing two companies secretly when he was the State chief of Astha International. They were cheated by lenka through the two companies, they alleged.
Meanwhile, after coming to know lenka’s arrest, the Gujarat Crime Branch probing into the Astha International’s fraud in Surat and other cities of the State might come to Odisha to interrogate further in the case. The sleuths have already arrested 16 persons of the fraudulent company and also sealed its corporate office in Surat. The other accused are absconding, said the sources.