CBI takes custody of chit fund company director

CBI today took Director of Royal International Group Nilima Dey into custody as part of its investigation into the chit fund scam involving Saradha Group and other such firms.
CBI sources said Dey was taken into 14 days' custody for her custodial examination in the chit fund case pertaining to her company. She was in the custody of the local police.
The sources said a court in Kolkata granted CBI the custody of Dey.
They said the agency had registered FIR against the company as part of its probe into the chit fund scam involving the Saradha group and other such firms.

Kolkata-based Royal International Group is considered the second largest chit fund firm, after the Saradha Group, and had operations across West Bengal and Odisha and crores of rupees were collected from thousands of investors who were lured with attractive returns.