Ponzy kingpin Suditpa Sen had been running a parallel economy in Bengal if some senior officials of Bidhnanagar Police currently quizzing the swindler CMD of the Saradha Group are to go by.
According to police sources, a bevy of former Bengal bureaucrats, politicians, police officers from Assam and those from the monitoring-bodies of the Central Government were on his monthly payroll. “At least this is what he says in the preliminary rounds of examination,” an officer said.
According to sources, while the Assam officers got about `40 lakh the Central officers drew `70 lakh per month from him for excluding the names of Saradha functionaries from future a case of fraud. This is apart from the huge amount of cash that found its way into the pockets of the politicians.
Most of these payments were made through the sister concerns of Saradha Group like the Bengal Media Pvt ltd, Saradha Realty, Saradha Constructions, Saradha Printing and Publishing.
Sources also informed about tracking about 150 bank accounts of Sen from which only cash transactions were made, apparently to avoid detection.
His quizzers also said that the total liability on his head was not matching the “accounted cash outflow of from his company.” In fact there was no balance-sheet prepared for the past three years showing a lot of money that came from the investors found their way into the pockets of politicians allegedly many of who belonged to the Bengal ruling party.
The police were also looking into the lap top found on Debjani Mukherjee the number two in Saradha Group. “It seems that the software and information have been tampered with,” said officials.