Shuva's daughter quizzed by ED on Saradha deal

Kolkata: ED investigators questioned painter Shuvaprasanna's daughter Jonaki Bhattacharya on Friday, seeking to know why there is no evidence of share transfer from his company, Devkripa Vyapaar - where they were both directors - to several stakeholders.
The question over the controversial deal with Saradha was raised while one of the stakeholders of Devkripa Vyapaar reportedly told ED officials that Shuvaprasanna was using share transfer as a facade to legalize Saradha payments.During investigation, ED officials noted that there was no physical evidence of shares being transferred to Saradha boss Sudipta Sen, say sources.
What has struck ED investigators is that Shuvaprasanna and Jonaki continued to be directors even after Sen 'bought' all the shares in the new dispensation along with Sen and Debjani Mukherjee. The annual returns filed with the Registrar of Companies on September 28, 2012, shows Shuvaprasanna and Jonaki as directors even after the transfer of shares to the Saradha Group.
Shuvaprasanna's name again cropped up in the Saradha investigation after the central investigating agency filed an attachment order, seizing their properties and money lying in the bank. While ED officials claimed that Jonaki was summoned for some clarifications, sources said that Jonaki was asked about some "deals of Shuvaprasanna". The investigators asked for share certificates of Devkripa and Shuvaprasanna and Jonaki allegedly could not produce any. During investigation, one of the stakeholders of Devkripa told ED that the shares were acquired mainly for providing income tax statements. "Shuvaprasanna made allocation of Devkripa shares only to hide the proceeds of crime received from Sudipta Sen," ED says in a recent report.
The investigators have attached a Mumbai flat in the name of Shuvaprasanna and Jonaki plus properties of the painter at the tourist town of Raichak. More than Rs 53 lakh lying in 20-odd accounts of Shuvaprasanna has been attached.
The agency also questioned Ramesh Gandhi's wife Shashi Kiran Gandhi in connection with the Ponzi muddle on Friday. Investigators suspect Gandhi raised false vouchers against the payments made to him. He floated different companies which provided consultancy to Sudipta Sen and allegedly siphoned money from the Saradha boss, says ED. The same set of false vouchers were first shown as debit vouchers in the accounts of Gandhi, say sources. Investigators have found several discrepancies in Ramesh Gandhi's statements. While he primarily told investigators that no other company other than Rainbow Productions, where he is a director, had any business dealing with the Saradha group, investigators found that he had multiple such companies.