CBI raids house of Orissa journalist in chit fund scam
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Two days after conducting raids on 18 places in Orissa and outside including Rajya Sabha MP and chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s former political guru Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, CBI this evening raided the premises of senior journalist Lalit Pattajoshi over his links with chit fund firm Seashore.
CBI officials reached the government quarter of Pattajoshi, a consulting editor with Odia daily Pragativadi, this evening and continued to interrogate him over his Seashore chit fund links. The raid on Pattajoshi’s premises came after CBI arrested broker Subhankar Nayak from an apartment in Bhubaneswar. Nayak, from whose home Rs 14.63 lakh in cash, two gold biscuits carrying the logo of Seashore was seized during Tuesday’s raids, reportedly acted as a go-between among the chit fund group, several IPS and IAS officers and Pattajoshi. A CBI official said his role is being examined in the Seashore chit fund scam.