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Bhubaneswar, March 10: BJP leaders Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Anil Kumar Sinha, urging the central agency to expedite the ongoing probe into the chit fund scam.
“There is a rising discontent among the public over what is perceived as the CBI going slow in the ongoing chit fund investigation. People are raising questions over the effecti
veness, intention, and credibility of the apex agency,” state BJP general secretary Bhrugu Baxipatra told mediapersons outside the CBI office here.
“The inherent weakness in the CBI chargesheet has also led to the accused easily getting bail,” he said after submitting the memorandum through the superintendent of police, CBI, Bhubaneswar.
Baxipatra said CBI is a central agency and is independently investigating the matter.
The diary and other documents of middleman Subhankar Nayak seized by the agency should be published in the interest of transparency and accountability to the public, said the other BJP leaders, including Samir Mohanty, Manmohan Samal, Simantini Jena and Sajjan Sharma, who had accompanied Baxipatra.
The CBI had seized a diary from Nayak’s residence that contained names of senior police officers and bureaucrats who allegedly received money from the Seashore group through Nayak.
Meanwhile, several members of Kranti Orissa Tuesday staged a protest outside the Crime Branch (CB) office here for not taking any action against the Oscar group that has allegedly duped investors in the state as well as in Surat, Gujarat. The agitators also alleged that Crime Branch officials are hand-in-glove with the ponzi firms.
The members of Kranti Orissa alleged that the Oscar group has swindled `400 crore in deposits from the public. They said several people had invested money in various branches of the group between 2009 and 2014 on the basis of promises of the money being doubled in a very short span of time.
The group had two offices in Bhubaneswar and several branches such as Oscar Cooperative Limited, Oscar Management Services Limited, Oscar Education Trust, Oscar movies and Oscar Infra Development limited, they said.
“We lodged a complaint with the economic offenses wing (EOW) of the state crime branch (CB) February 25, 2015, against Oscar group chairman Pravas Chandra Rout, general manager Muna Patra, and deputy manager Rabi Prasad Swain saying they had duped investors. However, the agency is deliberately not looking into the matter,” said Gangadhar Panigrahi of Kranti Orissa.“The crime branch is hand-in-glove with the chit fund companies,” he alleged.
“We demand that the CB look into the matter seriously and apprehend the trio who fraudulently took our money,” said a member of Kranti Orissa.
