Tag: Artha Tatwa

The State unit of the Congress led by OPCC chief Prasad Harichandan will stage a protest today demanding the resignation of Minister Sanjay Das Burma over his alleged links with chit-fund company Artha Tatwa Group

Waging his relentless attack on his arch-rival and BJD minister Sanjay Dasburma, senior Congress leader Lalatendu (Lulu) Bidyadhar Mohapatra on Sunday brought another charge against him to substantiate his close link with the Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, a chit fund company

Bhubaneswar: Police will launch a probe into the phone call made from the court premises by arrested chief of Artha Tatwa (AT) chit fund company Pradeep Sethi. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Bhubaneswar Satyabrat Bhoi informed that investigation into the lapse on the part of the police is already on. “We have already received a […]

Without naming Sanjay Das Burma, currently in the eye of a storm for allegedly receiving a Pajero vehicle from the Artha Tatwa (AT) chit fund company, AT chief Pradeep Sethy today said the Food Supply and Consumer Affairs minister is ‘innocent’

Trouble is mounting by the day for Minister Sanjay Dasburma with new allegations being levelled by Congress and BJP on Friday and demanding that the CBI should investigate the BJD leader’s investment in five companies

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Monday rejected the bail pleas of MP Ramchandra Hansda and media house owner Madhu Mohanty, who are currently in jail for their involvement in the multi-crore chit fund scam in the State. While hearing Hansda’s interim bail plea, the court maintained that health-related reasons furnished by the petitioner are […]

Cuttack: The ongoing row between Congress leader Lalatendu Bidyadhar (Lulu) Mahapatra and BJD minister Sanjay Dasburma intensified today as thousands of BJD workers went on a bike rally from Brahmagiri to Cuttack and submitted a memorandum to the Director General of Police (DGP) demanding immediate arrest of Mahapatra. Following a 12-hour Brahmagiri bandh call given […]

Senior Congress leader Lalatendu Bidyadhar (Lulu) Mohapatra, who had recently accused senior BJD leader and minister Sanjay Dasburma of his link with the Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, a chit fund company, came up with another allegation on Sunday saying that the minister had also received another vehicle from the ponzi company as a gift

Bhubaneswar: A day after senior Congress leader Lalatendu Bidyadhar (Lulu) Mohapatra made a thinly veiled attack on Food and Civil Supplies minister Sanjay Dasburma accusing him of using a Pajero SUV gifted by Artha Tatwa (AT) chit fund company, AT chief Pradip Sethi on Friday said he is yet to receive some of his vehicles […]

Cuttack: The district sessions court today allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take the founding director of Artha Tatwa chit-fund company Jyoti Prakash Joy Prakash on four-day remand. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the mega chit-fund scam in the State had arrested Joy Prakash in August, 2014. Sources said that Joyprakash, a native […]

Bhubaneswar: The supplementary chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the Artha Tatwa (AT) chit fund scam has revealed that former Crime Branch deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Pramod Panda, one of the main accused in the case, was quite close to AT group director Pradip Sethy. In its report, […]

Bhubaneswar: Former additional government advocate Debashis Panda today deposed before Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) here in connection with Artha Tatwa Group (AT) scam. Panda was questioned for three hours at the CBI office here. After the questioning he said, “I am a honest lawyer.” However, he declined to comment on what matters he was […]

Cuttack: In a first in the ongoing multi-crore chit fund probe in the State, the Orissa High Court today granted conditional bail to Artha Tatwa (AT) scam accused and Swastik India chairman Ranjan Dash, who has been chargesheeted by CBI in the ponzi scam. However, the HC has directed Dash not to leave the country […]

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached assets of Odisha-based Artha Tatwa group, its Managing Director P. K. Sethy and others in a chit fund scam. “ED attaches assets worth Rs 23 crore of Artha Tatwa Group, P.K.Sethy and others in chit fund scam in Odisha. Total attachment now is Rs 107 crore,” an […]

By Sandeep Sahu The ongoing CBI investigation into the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam is fast turning out to be a theatre of the absurd. More than a year after it last questioned Balasore MP Rabindra Jena and Laxmibilasini Biswal, wife of Choudwar-Cuttack MLA Pravat Biswal, in connection with the Seashore case, the agency suddenly […]