Bisan Dayal Jewellers (BDJ) proprietor revealed that Seashore Group had purchased more silver coins than ones seized. Notably, the silver coins had been recovered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch (CB) on Saturday last from a personal bank locker of Seashore Group CMD Prashant Dash.
“Three years back, the Seashore Group had purchased more than one thousand silver coins from us.
If EOW officials ask any detail regarding purchase documents, we can supply essenial documents,” said BDJ proprietor Gaurav Tiwarbal. Apart from that, the Income Tax department had seized a locker of the company in the month of February last year.
Meanwhile, the CB has written a letter to the IDCO to cancel the lease agreement of 100 acres with the Seashore Group in Nabarangpur. The company had taken the land from IDCO on lease by depositing Rs 60lakh for maize cultivation and set up of an agro-based industry in the land. Even the company was preparing to buy machineries worth around Rs 6 crore to establish a maize factory, said the CB sources.
Investigation is on to find out the other links of the company, said ADG Bijay Kumar Sharma.
Meanwhile, the bail petition of Dash, who is in the Koraput Jail, was rejected for third time in the Semiliguda case.