Pramesh S Jain
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has decided to bring former minister R.Roshan Baig and multi-crore IMA ponzi scheme prime accused Mansoor Khan face-to-face in a day or two.
Intensifying the investigation,CBI has taken Mohammed mansoor khan into custody till November 27.
Mansoor was taken into custody for questioning to verify with the information the CBI obtained during the course of probing Roshan Baig .
A senior CBI official from New Delhi, told reporters,here that it is imperative for the probe agency to bring them face-to-face and seek clarification.We have sought the CBI special court’s permission to take their custody again and inquire about their connections,the official said.
According to him,the CBI on Monday evening moved an application with the court in this regard.
Earlier in the morning,13 CBI officers raid the Residence of former Congress MLA’s Roshan Baig this morning.
Home phones Documents and other materials were seized from the premises and officers have done videography of the raid.
The officials also took Baig’s wife to the bank and searched the lockers and questioned her. Their son, Rumman Baig was not present during the search.
The CBI officials have also taken PD Kumar into custody to prove further.
Kumar, who worked as land acqusitition department in BDA,had allegedly taken Rs five crore from Mansoor promising to bail him out from the inquiries Initiated against him.
Kumar was earlier booked by SIT after raiding his house and seizing the documents related to the properties he owned.
The CBI which took over the IMA investigation, booked Kumar as one of the benificiary .
During investigations in mid 2019, the police found documents in which the prime accused in the IMA scam, Khan, had recorded payments made to politicians, policemen, and government officials. It showed Baig as a key recipient of funds.
The source said the CBI is likely to attach Baig’s properties in order to repay the money to the investors as Khan allegedly claimed that he was forced to pay crores of rupees to Baig in order to keep the business going.
Khan had fled the country but was arrested and brought back from Dubai in July 2019 by the Bengaluru police crime branch.
Khan had released a video while he was in hiding, wherein he claimed that several state politicians and officials had coerced him into paying bribes, leading to the downfall of IMA. One of them, who he claimed had received nearly Rs 400 crore, was Baig, the then Congress MLA from Shivajinagar in central Bengaluru.
