A day before the Supreme Court hears the prayers of senior advocate Shyam Divan, the Amicus Curiae in the multi crore chit fund scam, seeking court monitoring of the probe, the Orissa government on Thursday asked the director general of police to provide all necessary logistical support and documents to CBI’s local office and ED’s sub-zonal office in Bhubaneswar. ...Read More

Olympic medallist M C Mary Kom, who also won Gold in the Asian Games this year in South Korea, was in Kolkata on Wednesday (Nov 11, 2014) at the invitation of Herbalife International India Pvt. Ltd which chose to honour the Asian Games athletes who won medals.   Ajay Khanna, Vice President & Country Head, Herbalife International India Pvt. Ltd felicitated the me...Read More

The CBI has approached the Delhi high court after failing to explain to a trial court how some of its officers reportedly bungled a raid in a multi-crore scam allegedly involving intelligence officials, sources said on Wednesday.   The case pertains to alleged irregularities in supplying high-altitude tents worth Rs. 22 crore to the Special Frontier Force - a covert ...Read More

Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested mining baron Sudhir Sharma afresh in connection with sub-inspector recruitment exam-2012 scam. He was already in jail in connection with police constable recruitment exam-2012 scam.

According to STF officials, Sharma had helped four candidates in passing the written exam of sub-inspector recruitment-2012 fraudulently...Read More

New Delhi: The acts of former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and two other government officials overlooking the misrepresentation by Navbharat Power Pvt Ltd (NPPL) for getting coal block prima facie amounts to criminal misconduct, a special court on Wednesday said directing the CBI to further investigate the case.

The court differed from the investigat...Read More

With ED probing newer dimensions of money laundering, staff shortage is now acutely felt

Forget tackling black money, the 700-strong Enforcement Directorate (ED) is hard put to probe its current workload of 7,000 cases with just 218 investigating officers.

At present, the Directorate is pursuing sensational cases such as the coal block allocation...Read More

BHUBANESWAR: Leader of opposition in assembly Narasingha Mishra here on Tuesday expressed surprise as to how CBI has not yet directed its probe against chief minister Naveen Patnaik in the chit fund scam.

"Minister Damodar Rout has said Ponzi firms prospered due to government patronage. How can the CBI ignore such a claim, which is an admiss...Read More

BHUBANESWAR: Banki legislator Pravat Tripathy will be produced before a CBI court here on Thursday after the end of his 14-day remand.

The probe agency is unlikely to seek an extension of remand of the MLA, who was suspended from the BJD after his arrest on October 31 for his alleged links with the Artha Tatwa Group.

Along with T...Read More

While public attention was much more in Saradha as it turned out to be a high profile one, Rose Valley scam is probably six times bigger with a collection of  deposits worth about Rs15,000 crore

The mobilisation of money from the market is much more in Rose Valley than in the Saradha ponzi companies, according to Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is...Read More

AHMEDABAD: Ashok Jadeja, who is accused in a multi-crore ponzi scam, has been shortlisted by the state jail authorities along with 31 undertrials for release from jail following the Apex court order which says that undertrials who have spent half of the maximum sentence entailed by the crime should be released on conditional bail.

In September 20...Read More