Allegations of the involvement of Trinamool Congress leaders in the Saradha group chit fund scam have hit the West Bengal government hard. ...
10:35 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Left traded charges against each other over the chit fund scam in West Bengal on Wednesday. While the Left accused TMC of involvement, the latter said the chit fund companies were allowed to flourish even during the former's rule. "The Saradha group started in 2006. The chit fund companies mushroomed in Left regime. It's not only the question of Sudipto Sen. Clarifications have...
10:21 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday defended her government in the chit fund scam and lauded the police force for doing a "good job". She also announced a Rs 500 crore relief fund for the small and medium-term investors hit by the scam. She said that Rs 150 crore of the fund would be raised through a 10 per cent surcharge on cigarettes and the rest through...
07:03 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: In more embarrassment for the Mamata Banerjee government, another letter written by Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul has surfaced which had pointed towards the inaction over rising chit fund scams in West Bengal. In the letter dated 2010, the Trinamool Congress MP had asked the Centre to control the growth of ponzi schemes in the state. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the letter written by Paul to then...
06:31 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: CNN-IBN has accessed West Bengal chit fund scam accused Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen's letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) dated April 6. Sen's letter to the CBI names top politicians, journalists, lawyers as having benefited from his company. Sen, in his letter, alleges that he forayed into the media business because he initially came under vicious attack from Bengal's Pratidin newspaper represented by TMC MP Kunal...
04:01 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has cracked down on the Saradha group in the chit fund scam. The Mamata Banerjee government has frozen about 35 bank accounts belonging to the Saradha group, while 36 cars belonging to Saradha Chairman Sudipta Sen and his company have been seized. Four office buildings in and around Kolkata belonging to the Saradha group have also been seized along with hundreds of land documents. The...
02:48 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: Explosive revelations could embarrass the Trinamool Congress in the chit fund scam. National daily The Indian Express has reported that the Saradha Group CMD has sent an 18-page letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The letter contains the names of several key politicians, officials and legal experts who allegedly milked the company for money. The letter could reveal a nexus between politicians and the chit fund industry. The...
11:15 AM, Apr 24, 2013
The Chairman of the group, Sudipta Sen, was on Tuesday arrested in Jammu and Kashmir along with two others. ...
10:59 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee is in damage control mode as the Saradha chit fund scam threatens to embarrass her government further. Mamata has promised action if any of its leaders are involved in the scam. "Mamata Banerjee has said that anybody found culpable will be acted against," Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy said. The Chairman of the group, Sudipta Sen, has been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir...
08:10 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. ...
11:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. ...
11:30 PM, Apr 23, 2013
SEBI chief UK Sinha said people have tendency to invest in schemes of fast money making. ...
07:12 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Three people, including the promoter of the Saradha group, Sudipta Sen, were arrested in Sonmarg, Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. ...
06:59 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Three accused in the West Bengal chit fund scam were arrested from Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. ...
06:54 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata/Srinagar: Three people, including the promoter of Saradha group, Sudipta Sen, were arrested in Sonmarg, Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in connection with the West Bengal chit fund scam. The three people were reportedly on their way from Srinagar to Sonmarg when they were intercepted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. While a close aide of Sen, Debjani Mukherjee was the second person arrested, the third person, sources say is...
05:34 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. Sources said that Sebi began the latest round of investigation after certain complaints...
01:42 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: There was another suicide bid by a Saradha Group agent hit by the chit fund scam in West Bengal. Twenty-eight-year old Tapasi Singha tried to commit suicide by consuming sleeping pills. She had a liability of Rs 5,30,000. Tapasi and her husband Sri Nandan Singha were agents of Saradha realty. She has been admitted in Jangipur Sub Divisional Hospital. As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings...
12:47 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings in a chit fund scam following the collapse of the Saradha Group, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been shifting the blame on the Left. This even as heat builds on Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh who headed Saradha group's media unit. But he claims it was a while back when he was working as a journalist. Advocate Basabi Roy...
10:46 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: With her government drawing flak after the Saradha Group downed shutters, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blamed the erstwhile Left Front regime for the mushrooming of chit funds, alleging it had not even acted on presidential advice for a strong legislation to contain the menace. Breaking her silence on the issue days after the firm went bust, affecting lakhs of agents and distributors who had parked...
05:38 AM, Apr 23, 2013
As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings in a chit fund scam following the collapse of the Saradha Group, the state government on Monday formed a special investigation team (SIT) and instituted a high-level inquiry into chit fund companies operating in the state. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 22, 2013
