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Chit fund scam:Saradha CMD names 2 TMC MPs in a letter to CBI
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Apr, 2013
Arrested Saradha group chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen has
named two Trinamool Congress MPs and some Congress leaders, including
the advocate wife of a union minister , in an 18-page letter to the CBI.
In
the letter dated April 6 sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI), Sen said he would be committing suicide any moment as he felt
helpless as "unscrupulous persons and cheats in the society" had put him
in a position in which he was unable to refund the "public money"
collected in his name.
"All the names mentioned in this letter
must be treated as an FIR for putting me in to a situation of and/or
provoking me to committing suicide. This is my last statement", he said,
in the letter which is in the possession of IANS.
Sen, who
absconded after his chit-fund went bust, was arrested with two other
senior officials of the company from Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir
Tuesday.
Sen said he entered the media business after a Bengali daily started to attack him.
However,
he mentioned towards the end of the missive that his business empire
collapsed due to his entry into the media domain, the extortion by
various persons and the blackmail by his own staff.
He named a
journalist (who later became a Trinamool MP) for having complained about
his company to the West Bengal government, and starting a campaign
against him.
"To combat the media attack, I thought I must enter the media business," he said.
Sen
said after he purchased a TV channel, the owner-editor (who also later
became a Trinamool MP) and the journalist of the paper that had earlier
attacked him came to him with the offer of a Rs.60 lakh-per-month
arrangement with the newspaper for running the channel.
The journalist was appointed in a top position of the channel at a salary of Rs.15 lakh per month.
"(The
paper) has also given me assurance that on execution of this agreement
they will protect my business from the government, i.e. from state
government and central government and I will be able to get a smooth
passage and they assured me that they have very close connection with
present C.M of West Bengal i.e Ms. Mamata Banerjee," Sen said.
He said in the past two years, the paper had taken Rs.20 crore from him for running the channel.
"Various
time they have taken cash under various causes shown to me and also
apart from that for running the channel for the last three years
including the payment (cable operators) not less than Rs.2 crore per
month," Sen wrote.
Sen said though he purchased the channel and
spent not less than Rs.50 crore for it, a Trinamool MP "along with his
few miscreants came to my office and forced me to sign some document and
letters, which I signed without going through the contents thereof and
after they have gone, I read and found that they have got me to sign as
if I have sold them (the channel) for a meagre amount of Rs.55 lakh," he
said.
"They also got me to sign as if I have transferred them (a) newspaper (name of the newspaper) which I have never done," he said.
Sen also accused a minister in the Tarun Gogoi government of Assam of having "cheated him".
"For
the last six months he has taken from us not less than three crores,
all by cash, and some vouchers have been signed by his office
executives... This amount is also to be returned to the company for
paying up the Bengal area creditors".
Sen said the advocate wife
of a prominent Indian minister, whom he called on, had requested him to
help her set up a channel in Guwahati and support her by extending Rs.42
crore to her company. He said during a period of one-and-a-half years,
she was paid Rs.1 crore as consultancy fees.
The letter also
accuses some other Congress leaders of Assam as also a senior official
of a leading football club of Kolkata, apart from some journalists,
media owners and others of having fleeced him.
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