In fresh revelations in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed that ‘benami’ land and a liquor bar, worth over Rs 60 crore, at prime locations of Kolkata were purchased by laundering investors’ funds.
The central agency has gathered documents which unravel purchase of close to 68 acres of land in attractive locations of the West Bengal capital through ‘benami’ transactions, and no official land registration was available for the alleged illegal purchases.
This is the first time that a probe agency has found trails of some large-scale ‘benami’ (unnamed) assets in this case which has created a furore amongst lakhs of investors.
Such assets are usually created by perpetrators of a fraud enterprise to escape the tax net.
Sources privy to the development said that the agency sleuths have cracked some e-mails and cell phone communication of some ‘key’ people involved in the case, including those of Shubojit, son of the main accused of the ponzi scheme scam Sudipta Sen.