PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The chief spokesperson of Uttarakhand Congress Garima Dasauni has said that the government should order an inquiry in the Social Mutual Benefits Limited company scam.
Interacting with the media persons at Rajiv Bhawan on Friday, Dasauni said that like the Loni Urban multistate Credit and thrift Cooperative (LUCC) society, the Social Mutual Benefits Company also had looted thousands of investors in Uttarakhand.
She claimed that KS Panwar, the industrial advisor of former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat was directly involved with the Social Mutual Benefits Company and his wife was a director in the company. Initial inquiries suggested a money laundering of Rs 200 crore was done and when the scam came to fore, the wife of Panwar submitted her resignation.
She claimed that the company opened fake RD and FD accounts in the name of thousands of investors and the case is directly linked to money laundering.
Dasuani said that the government should order the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax inquiries against Panwar and his wife and their properties should be seized. She added that the inquiries of both LUCC and Social Mutual Benefits Company scams should be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the monitoring of the Supreme Court.
She warned that if no action is taken against the company then the Congress party will take the issue to the public.
