Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jul 2:

A CBI team today interrogated chit fund scam accused and Seashore Group CMD Prashant Dash, his brother Prabhat Dash and real estate broker Subhankar Nayak inside Jharpada Special Jail here.

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The team, comprising of CBI SP and Interrogating Officer (IO), has got special CBI court's permission to grill the trio inside the jail for three days.

Sources said, the CBI team is likely to grill the three separately and then face to face.

Notably, the CBI last year had filed a 276-page charge sheet in which it had named Prashant, Prabhat and Subhankar accusing the Seashore Group of swindling Rs 578.20 crores.

Prashant was arrested by state Crime Branch from Mumbai on June 20, 2013 before the case was handed over to the CBI under Supreme Court order.

On the other hand, Prabhat who is accused of embezzling company funds to the tune of Rs 3 crores was arrested on January 24 last year.

Similarly, CBI had arrested Subhankar for his alleged links with the company on November 18, 2014, hours after his house in Chandrama Apartments here was raided. It is learnt that he was an influence peddler and had acted as the middleman between Seashore Group and top bureaucrats.