-The Indian Express New Delhi/ Kolkata: Chit fund 'kingpin' names politicians from Bengal, Assam in letter to CBI. Sudipta Sen, promoter of Saradha Group, has claimed that Trinamool Congress's Rajya Sabha members Kunal Ghosh and Srinjay Bose assured him that his business interests will be protected "as they have a very close connection" with Chief Minister mamata banerjee. In an 18-page letter to the CBI, Sen has alleged that a number of politicians...
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Blame game and a cover-up-Saadia
-The Hoot A huge media conglomerate was built up by a chit fund company which has now collapsed. Can the West Bengal government whose MP was part of the empire disclaim responsibility, asks SAADIA. About 1400 journalists have lost their jobs because a chit fund company's little-known Chief Managing Director ventured to become a media mogul in West Bengal some three years back. Almost every three months, the Saradha Group that had...
More »West Bengal chit fund scam: Knives out for tainted Trinamool MPs
-The Times of India KOLKATA: The inferno triggered in a million homes by the Saradha meltdown has singed the ruling Trinamool Congress. The heat was palpable at an informal meeting of Trinamool MPs at Parliament's Central Hall on Tuesday when the knives were out against the tainted partymen who have harmed Didi's Ma-Mati-Manush image. With Sudipta Sen in custody, at least two heads in the Trinamool are set to roll, say party...
More »Government abused powers in coal block allotments, House panel says
-The Times of India Parliament's standing committee on Coal and Steel has indicted the government for "totally abusing its powers" in allotting coal mines between 1993 and 2010 through the "most non-transparent procedure" to "few fortunate ones for their own benefit". "The government cannot give largesse on its arbitrary discretion or its sweet will," the committee, under the chairmanship of Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, said in its latest report tabled in...
More »I was used, blackmailed by Trinamool MPs: Saradha Group CMD to CBI -Madhuparna Das
-The Indian Express Kolkata: Saradha Group CMD Sudipta Sen has sent an 18-page letter to the CBI containing names of several key politicians, officials and legal experts who allegedly milked the company for money. The letter, which reached the CBI in Delhi as Sen remained at large, was forwarded by the agency to its office in Kolkata, and it was subsequently referred to the Bidhannagar police commissionerate. Bidhannagar police commissioner Rajeev Kumar received...
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