Going back on his stand made on Friday that the Rs 28 lakh seized by the CBI from his Rairangpur residence during the raid in July this year was his ‘own money’, Mayurbhanj BJD MP from Rama Chandra Hansda on Sunday said the money belonged to his supporters.
Emerging out of the CBI office here after being questioned on his links with chit fund company Nabadiganta Capital Services, Hansda said, “The money seized by the CBI from my residence was contribution from my supporters.”
He said he had been persuaded to join the Nabadiganta Capital Services as a director by its promoter Anjan Kumar Baliarsingh and other directors of the company but resigned once it became a public limited company in 2013.
Hansda said he had neither invested any money in the company nor had received any remuneration as a director. “Rather, I have a bond of Rs 3 lakh in the company,” he said.
Hansda’s statement was echoed by former BJD MlA from Keonjhar Subarna Nayak, who was also interrogated by the CBI on Sunday.
However, former Khariar BJP MlA Hitesh Bagarti admitted that he had invested Rs 3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh in the company, which he was yet to get back. “I have filed two cases against Nabadiganta but have not got my money back yet,” he said.
like Hansda and Nayak, Bagarti too denied having received any money from the company by way of remuneration. “All that I have received from the company is two cups of tea and three meals,” he said.
Asked why he had joined the company without verifying its antecedents, Bagarti said it was a mistake he is paying dearly for. “Had it not been for my family, I would have shot myself,” he said.
On Sunday, former Advocate General Asok Mohanty also presented himself at the CBI office as per the conditions imposed by the District and Sessions Court here while granting him bail.