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Bhubaneswar CBI nabs chit fund scam mastermind from Tamil Nadu

Bhubaneswar, Aug 4 (UNI) The Bhubaneswar unit of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the director of Rightmax Technotrade International Limited, a money circulation company which duped thousands of investors from Odisha, from Tamil Nadu, the premiere investigating agency said on Monday.
The accused Sivakumar Gangadharan, who was on the run since 2018 and frequently changing his whereabouts, from Karur in Tamil Nadu, it said,
Rightmax Technotrade, a money circulation firm with its headquarter in Bangalore, was listed among 44 ponzi firms by the CBI which is probed into the multi-crore chit fund scam.
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