Agartala/Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a proclaimed offender from Kolkata, who had been charge-sheeted in two Tripura chit fund cases, said the CBI on Wednesday.

The accused Sanjit Chakraborty, Chairman and Managing Director of M/s Cosmic Negociators Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, was at large since the registration of FIR by Tripura Police in 2013, the agency said in a press release.

Chakraborty, who had been absconding for 13 years, was finally arrested in Kolkata on Tuesday.

The CBI earlier took over the cases after notifications of the Tripura and Central governments under the DSPE Act, 1946, the central probe agency said in the statement.

It said that after investigation, a charge sheet in the first case was filed against the accused Sanjit Chakraborty and others in 2015 for duping the public of approximately Rs 7.48 crore. The charge sheet in the second case was filed in 2024 against the accused and others for duping public money to the tune of approximately Rs 27.13 lakh.

In both cases, Chakraborty was shown as an absconding accused in the charge sheet, the statement said.

The accused had been hiding and evading arrest since 2013. After sustained efforts, based on inputs collected during field verification, technical and physical surveillance and analysis, the accused, Sanjit Chakraborty, was located in Kolkata, West Bengal, and was arrested by the CBI on May 12.

The arrested accused will be brought to Tripura for production before the competent court after securing a transit warrant from the jurisdictional court in Kolkata.

Further investigation is underway, said the officials.

Earlier, the CBI also arrested many people from different states, including Assam, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in connection with the Tripura chit fund scam cases. The chit fund scams in Tripura have rocked the Northeastern state, as many illegal chit fund companies under various controversial Ponzi schemes collected thousands of crores, duping thousands of people. The Tripura High Court in 2024 ordered the formulation of a scheme to return money to customers cheated by chit fund companies.

–IANS

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