An official said that about Rs 80 lakh in cash, country-made pistol was recovered from the residence in New Town.
Kolkata:
The CBI on Friday arrested Trinamool leader and Halisahar Municipality President Raju Sawhney for his alleged role in a Ponzi scheme, an agency official said.
He said a team of CBI officers raided Sahni’s houses on the outskirts of the city and in Kolkata’s New Town in connection with the probe into the Bardhaman Sanmarg Welfare Trust ponzi scheme and questioned him for hours.
About Rs 80 lakh in cash was recovered from his residence in New Town and a country-made pistol from his residence in Halisahar, he said.
“We conducted a search operation at the houses of TMC leader Raju Sahni and found several important documents. He was also questioned by our officials. He remained uncooperative. Sahni was later arrested,” the official said.
He also said that some documents indicate that Mr. Sawhney had a bank account in Thailand.
“We hope to find out more details after questioning him,” the officer said.
An FIR was registered in 2018 by the Economic Offenses Wing of the CBI in connection with the scheme.
The Supreme Court had in May 2014 directed the CBI to investigate all Ponzi chit fund schemes duping lakhs of depositors in Bengal and neighboring Odisha.