By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, April 10, 2015 :

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing into the mega chit fund scam, on Friday raided on the offices of Royal International Group at eight places in Odisha and West Bengal.

A 10-member CBI team raided the house of Sudhir Behera, a former director of the company, at Daulatabad in Choudwar in Cuttack district and seized some documents and bank accounts in his absence, sources said adding that the central investigating team also raided the company’s branch office at Gajapati Nagar in Bhubaneswar.

Royal International Group, one of the largest chit fund companies in West Bengal after the Saradha Group, has its head office at Kolkata.

The company also had its branch offices in Odisha through which it had collected crores of rupees from the people.

In another development, the CBI on Firday submitted a supplementary charge sheet against three more persons – former DSP of Odisha Crime Branch (CB) Pramod Panda and two directors of Artha Tatwa (AT) Group – in mega chit fund scam at the special CBI court here.

The AT Group directors were arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of state CB in 2013.