Saradha rip-off case: ED attaches ₹3 cr price properties of two TMC leaders

On Saturday (April 3), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) cracked down on two TMC leaders in connection to the Saradha chit fund cash laundering case. As per stories, the central company has hooked up properties amounting to ₹3 crores belonging to former Rajya Sabha MP and present TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, Lok Sabha MP Satabdi Roy and one Debjani Mukherjee.
While Ghosh was the CEO, Roy was the model ambassador of the Saradha Media Group. On the opposite hand, Mukherjee was the Director of the Saradha Group of Companies.
ED has hooked up properties price Rs. 3Cr pertaining to Kunal Ghosh Ex-Rajya Sabha MP from TMC (CEO Media Group Saradha), Satabdi Roy Lok Sabha MP from TMC (Brand Ambassador Saradha) and likewise of Debjani Mukhejree who’s director Saradha Group of corporations in Saradha Chit Fund case— ED (@dir_ed) April 3, 2021
The ED knowledgeable that it had a provisional order to connect each movable and immovable properties of the stated people. The order was issued to the central company beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). So far, the Enforcement Directorate has hooked up ₹600 crores price of property within the case. The investigation has been ongoing for over half a decade, beginning in April 2013.
Interestingly, Kunal Ghosh headed a TV channel, which was funded by the Saradha group. After the allegations surfaced in opposition to him, Ghosh was suspended in 2013 for his ‘anti-party activities.’ He was later inducted within the get together and made the spokesperson. He is out on bail and has been interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate on a number of events.
Saradha chit-fund rip-off case
The Saradha rip-off broke out into the open in 2013 when a Ponzi scheme run by the Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 non-public corporations, collapsed after gathering a whole lot and 1000’s of crores from over 15 lakh buyers.
When ED questioned Ghosh as a witness in October 2013, it was revealed that Kumar was in touch with ED in the course of the arrests of Sudipta Sen, Debjani Mukherjee, or witnesses Ghosh and others throughout September to November 2013. CBI stated, “It was ensured by the officials that grave facts narrated by these accused persons or witnesses must not be taken on record as part of the investigation with a purpose to shield the influential persons.”
CBI stated, “It is submitted that the same establishes that the Chief Minister used to talk to Sudipta Sen using the phone of Kunal Kumar Ghosh,” stated the applying. During the investigation, when CBI checked the decision particulars of two numbers of Sen for one yr, the company discovered that he and Ghosh talked 298 instances on one quantity and 9 instances on the second quantity, as per a report by Business Standard.