The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned for questioning Trinamool Congress MP Suvendu Adhikari and CPI-M leader Rabin Deb in relation of the multi-crore Saradha scam.
Deb, will be the first CPI(M) leader to appear before the central agency for questioning.
Sources aware of the matter said that the CPI(M) leader is likely to be questioned on his role regarding the sale of a television channel to the Saradha Group.
Deb, however, is said to have expressed his inability to be present immediately citing prior commitments.
So far the CBI – probing into the multi-crore Saradha Scam – has made four arrests, three in West Bengal and one from Assam.
The arrested include Trinamool Congress leader and former IPS officer Rajat Majumdar; East Bengal Club official Debabrata Sarkar and businessman Sandhir Agarwal. Film director and singer, Sadananda Gogoi of Assam was also arrested.
This apart, the central agency has also grilled Trinamool MP, Srinjoy Bose.
The Enforcement Directorate is carrying out a parallel probe in the matter.
The Saradha Group, which went bust in April 2013, had been involved in various Ponzi and illegal money deposit schemes. It duped several investors across the State of West Bengal, Assam, Odisha and Bihar. Sudipta Sen, Group Chairman of the Saradha Group was arrested later that month by the West Bengal police.
The other high profile arrest in the case has been that of now suspended Trinamool Congress MP, Kunal Ghosh. Ghosh, used to head the media business of the Group.