CBI officials on Thursday conducted raids at various Saradha group's properties located in Kolkata.
The investigation is being carried out at Saradha Gardens in the Bishnupur area of South 24 Parganas district from where the company started its business some seven years ago as well as the Saradha property in the Behala area of Kolkata, CNN IBN reported today.
The sources said searches have been carried out in connection with one of the four FIRs against the Saradha group in which suspended TMC Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh is also an accused.
CBI has called up West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra and Trinamool Congress MP Srinjoy Bose.Sources told IANS that both of them have been asked to appear before the agency during the week.
While Mitra will be the first state minister to be grilled, Bose a Rajya Sabha member was interrogated by the CBI earlier, too.
The agency has recently filed two charge sheets in connection with the scam.
The first chargesheet was filed at City Sessions Court on October 22 against four Saradha group companies and one owned by suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh and contained the names of accused persons Saradha group chief Sudipto Sen, his associate Debjani Mukherjee and Ghosh.
Another charge sheet was filed in which persons have been named Sen, Mukherjee, former West Bengal DGP Rajat Majumdar, businessman Sandhir Agarwal, East Bengal club official Debabrata Sarkar, Assamese singer Sadanand Gogoi, who were all arrested by the agency.
The chargesheet also contained the name of Sajjan Agarwal, father of Sandhir Agarwal, who had been interrogated but not arrested by CBI. The other three Saradha group companies named in the chargesheet were Saradha Housing, Saradha Gardens and Saradha Tours and Travels.
CBI has registered four FIRs against Saradha Group companies for alleged cheating and duping the people of their money.
With inputs from Agencies
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