BHUBANESWAR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge sheet in the Court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Bhubaneswar, against Pune-based cooperative society and its former officials under different Sections of Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978.
The CBI registered the case on June 4 against M/s Samruddha Jeevan Multi State Multi Purpose Co-operative Society limited, its the then chairman and managing director Mahesh Kisan Motewar, and another official of the firm Prasad Kishor Paraswar.
Samruddha Jeevan was accused of collecting about `3,678 crore from over 35 lakh customers and investors whose estimated maturity amount would be `4,320 crore. Out of the said amount, only about `836 crore was paid to the customers, and rest amount of around `3,484 crore remained unpaid.The case was registered in compliance with the orders of the Supreme Court which passed in writ petition (civil) number-401 of 2013, and had taken over the investigation of the case which was registered earlier by Malkangiri Police in December, 2011.
