The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday grilled a vernacular newspaper owner, Madhu Mohanty, for hours for his links with the tainted chit fund company, Artha Tatwa Group.
Sources said Mohanty had reportedly taken Rs 1 crore from the AT Group, which is said to be chit fund money. Earlier, the CBI had arrested Mohanty after it was not satisfied with his claims of utilisation of money.
Mohanty had claimed that he had used the money received from the
AT Group for advertisement purposes. Sources said the ED sleuths are trying to find the money trail of the funds which the newspaper owner had received from the AT Group. If Mohanty is not able to provide satisfactory answers about the ulitisation of money he may again land in a soup. Notably, he was recently released from the Jharpada jail after two years after being granted bail by the Orissa High Court.