The CBI on Wednesday conducted search operations on the offices of Kolkata-based chit fund company Saradha at various places in the State, including Puri. An eight-member CBI team searched the Saradha office at Badashankha in Puri, which had been sealed by the EOW in April 2014 after seizure of computer hard disks and documents. The CBI raid on Wednesday was intended to look into the papers that had not been seized by the EWO, sources said. The Puri office of the company had defrauded investors of about Rs10 crore, the sources said. There were also reports of CBI raids on Saradha offices in Koraput, Cuttack and Baleswar.
Similarly, the CBI also conducted raid at chit fund firm Real India Tulip ltd’s office in the State in connection with Odisha chit fund scam. The Central agency also raided eight places in West Bengal in connection with the scam, informed the CBI Spokesperson in New Delhi. The office premises and residences of the company’s directors Tritha Halder, Malay Halder, Prasenjit Sil, Malay Guha, Dipankar Ghosh and others were being searched, he added.