The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), investigating the Seashore Group chit fund scam, on Tuesday verified the bank transactions of Choudwar-Cuttack MlA Pravat Ranjan Biswal at the United Bank of India’s (UBI) Jagatpur branch.
Sources in the CBI said the affidavits submitted to it by 11 persons who have claimed to have lent money to Biswal’s wife laxmi Bilasini Biswal would be subjected to forensic examination. The CBI would also verify the land documents in the name of the MlA’s wife.
A team of CBI officers visited the bank at Jagatpur and verified two bank accounts of the MlA. They also discussed with bank branch manager Debendra Mohanty on the transactions of Pravat Biswal.
Mohanty was also arrived at the CBI office and produced the bank details of Biswal here. After coming out of the CBI office, he told reporters the CBI that Biswal has taken two home loans amounting to `50 lakh from the bank, out of which he has already repaid a loan of `20 lakh and is repaying instalments the `30-lakh loan.
“He had taken a house building loan in 2009 which has been closed after repayment. He has taken another similar loan which he is repaying,” said Mohanty.