The investigators into the Saradha scam are likely to question income-tax (I-T) officials to probe how the chit fund company had managed to flourish violating its rules.
The move of the detective department of the Bidhannagar city police comes after Saradha owner Sudipta Sen revealed the names of a host of central and state government officials who he had roped in to evade actions.
According to sources, the list of the names include some senior IT officials whom Mr Sen disclosed had “helped him” from time to time in the “hour of need” in his business.
The DD has already questioned a retired official of the Reserve Bank of India and recorded his statement. Now, the cops want to unravel Mr Sen’s nexus with the I-T officials.
Interrogating him, the DD has found that the total value of the companies’ policies so far is around `14.78 crore, sources added.
On Saturday, Mr Sen and his aide Debjani Mukherjee were interrogated by two teams of the South 24-Parganas police in connection with Saradha Group’s massive business in the district.
Recently, the police had received a complaint by a depositor in Joynagar.
On Saturday morning, a five-member Joynagar police team came to the New Town police station followed by a Baruipur police team in the afternoon. Meanwhile, the Electronic complex police has seized six motorcycles with Kolkata police stickers from the company’s Midland Park office. What stunned the investigators was that some of them even had beacons and hooters.