Director of chit fund company arrested, had cheated people of crores by giving offers

Bhilai. The Supela police arrested the director of a chit fund company who cheated crores by luring high interest from Raipur on Monday. Accused Ashwani Pandey alias Sonu made people deposit money in a chit fund company on the pretext of higher interest. Then he ran away with crores of rupees. The matter is of January 2017. Ever since the case was registered against the accused at Supela police station, the police was looking for him. Apart from Supela, cases of cheating have also been registered against the accused in other police stations including Newai.

Ashwani Pandey alias Sonu (48), director of Arth Tatva Credit Society, is a resident of Sheetlapara, Raipur, near Mahadev Ghat Government Bamboo Depot. By giving attractive offers to the people, assured to get more interest on the deposited amount in less time. Got crores of rupees deposited from the people, but did not return the amount of the customers even after completion of the time period. In January 2017, one of these victims, Samriddhi Jain, lodged a case of cheating against Ashwani Pandey alias Sonu, director of Artha Tatva Credit Society, at Supela police station. Since then the police was searching for the accused, who was absconding.

TI said that the director of the chit fund company, Ashwani Pandey alias Sonu, fled from his residence as soon as he came to know about the report being lodged. A special campaign is being launched to arrest the absconding directors of the chit fund company. In the meantime, as soon as the news of the accused being in Raipur was received, the Supela police left for Raipur and caught the accused under siege at Mahadev Ghat, Raipur.