BHUBANESWAR: CBI on Sunday arrested three top functionaries of Nava Diganta Capital Services Limited (NDCS), a chit fund company, for allegedly embezzling public deposits worth over Rs 100 crore. The company's CMD, Anjan Baliyarsingh, and directors Pradeep Pattnaik and Kartikeya Parida, were arrested after eight hours of interrogation.

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On October 20, the High Court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former government chief whip and BJD MLA Pravat Tripathy in the Artha Tatwa chit fund scam. On Saturday, the CBI interrogated him, for the fourth time, about nomination of chit fund group chief Pradeep Sethy for a state-sponsored cooperative award. So far, there have been several high-profile arrests, including ...Read More

Politicians remain the focus of the CBI investigation in the chit fund scam that has hit lakhs of low-income investors in Odisha. The CBI on Sunday quizzed two former MLAs — Hitesh Bagarti (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Subarna Naik (Biju Janata Dal) – while sitting BJD MP of Mayurbhanj, Ramachandra Hansdah, was summoned for the second time in three days.

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Bhubaneswar: The CBI, probing into the mega chit-fund scam in Odisha, arrested CMD of Nabadiganta Capital Services Anjan Kumar Baliarsingh and two directors of the company- Kartikeya Parida and Pradeep Patnaik on Sunday. The company has allegedly duped around 20,000 people of more than Rs 100 crore in the state.

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Bhubaneswar: The CBI, probing the chit fund scam in Odisha, grilled Mineral Metal Trading Corporation (MMTC) Bhubaneswar branch manager Gajendra Patra on Friday evening over the gold trading between the corporation and the chit fund company Seashore Group.

Patra was interrogated for about 30 minutes. After his interrogation, Patra told reporters that he was asked...Read More

Bhubaneswar: The special CBI court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Mumbai-based model and television serial producer Preeti Bhatia, who was arrested by CBI on October 10 over her alleged business links with chit fund firm AT group.

The CBI had taken Bhatia on a 4-day remand on October 14 for further questioning. After completion of her remand period, CBI had ...Read More

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has set a target of providing irrigation facilities across 10 lakh hectares of arable land in the next five years with an estimated cost of Rs 18,000 crore. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level review meeting presided over by chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat on Friday.

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Bhubaneswar: BJD’s Mayurbhanj MP Ramachandra Hansda again appeared before CBI on Sunday for questioning over his alleged involvement in Nabadiganta capital services. Along with Hansda, two former MLAs- BJD’s Subarna Nayak and BJP’s Hitesh Bagarti were also interrogated.

Hansda was questioned for at least two hours. After the interrogation, he to...Read More

AHMEDABAD : After allegedly netting Rs 380 crore through a ponzi scheme, Abhay Gandhi sought temporary bail from Gujarat high court for providing financial assistance to his family.

Gandhi sought bail for a couple of weeks to manage finances for his family members who, according to him, are passing through critical times. Justice A J Desai, however, turned down G...Read More

Moneycontrol Bureau   In what would be only the second instance since the Satyam Computers scam broke out in 2009, the government is considering superseding the board of Financial Technologies India Limited (FTIL) , the listed parent firm of scandal-tainted National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL), according to a report in the Indian Express this morni...Read More