Cuttack: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch filed charge-sheets against two dubious chit fund companies—Tresty Securities Private Limited and Creative Assets Private Limited—in a special chit fund court here Wednesday.
The EOW has named Tresty Securities’ managing director Dayanidhi Mohapatra and directors Hari Arjun Panda, Rasmiranjan Mohapatra, Sashi Bhusan Das and Ashok Kumar Rout as accused in charge-sheet. As Rout is on the run, the EOW requested the court to issue a non-bailable warrant against him.
Earlier, the EOW had registered cases against Tresty Securities under Sections 467, 468, 471, 420, 406 and 120 (B) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 6 of Orissa Protection of Interest of Depositors (in financial establishments) Act, 2011.
Tresty Securities had opened its office in Balasore with branches at Soro, Bhadrak, Betanati and other parts of the state and collected huge deposits from people by promising good returns on their investments.
In 2015, the company closed down its offices and vanished, without paying anything to the depositors. The EOW received complaints that the firm had duped several gullible investors of over Rs 10 crore. On the basis of the complaints, the EOW had arrested the firm’s director Dayanidhi from Nasik in Maharashtra. Subsequently, three other directors were also arrested. However, Rout is still at large.
Similarly, the EOW had registered a case against Creative Assets Pvt Ltd, which had duped several people of around Rs 3 crore by promising them plots.
The EOW named seven persons including the managing director of the firm, Santosh Jena, as accused in the scam.
PNN