Sources in the probe agency said the Enforcement Directorate on Monday attached I-Cor’s assets worth around Rs 300 crore in connection with a money laundering probe into an alleged Ponzi scam. Sources said the properties attached by the central agency belong to 11 companies of the i-core group, its directors late Anukul Maity and Kanika Maity and their family members.
“The assets include bank accounts, land plots, factories, shopping malls and various residential properties,” he said. Like the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund companies, i-Core raised funds from the public through several fraudulent schemes launched by them and was accused of defrauding investors by offering unusually high returns on investments .
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also probing the Ponzi scam and had questioned West Bengal ministers Partha Chatterjee and Manas Ranjan Bhunia for their alleged involvement in the case. The agency also questioned TMC MLA Madan Mitra on Monday. On 9 May 2014, on the orders of the Supreme Court, the CBI took over the investigation of Saradha and other Ponzi scam cases.
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