In a major development in connection with the chit fund scam, Asif Khan, a former Trinamool Congress leader and a key witness in the Saradha chit fund case have been arrested late on Thursday evening on charges of cheating and fraud, police said.
“Khan was arrested for allegedly duping a businessman of Rs8 crore,” a senior officer said adding he was taken to New Town Police Station and would be produced before the court on Friday.
His aides, however, said that he is being victimised by the Trinamool Government for accusing the senior leaders of corruption. Khan was an editor of a newspaper close to the ruling outfit. He was also a key aide of some topmost TMC leaders and left the party recently after he started accusing the top party leadership for their alleged role in the chit fund scam.
In fact, he had reportedly told the CBI about some leaders' close relation with the jailed Saradha chief Sudipto Sen. He also traveled to Singapore with the CBI sleuths insders said adding he identified a hotel their owned by a senior Trinamool leader. Recently Khan had said that he might be arrested by the Police as the ruling party wanted to keep him away from the CBI.