Officials reported on Friday that the CBI had arrested me again in connection with an Assamese online trading scam worth Rs 2,200 crore. According to a statement from a CBI spokeswoman, accused Gopal Paul was taken into custody from a hiding place in Siliguri in relation to the AJRS Marketing case, one of 41 scam-related cases the agency is looking into. Assam Police had previously conducted the investigation and detained key players in the case. Paul continued to flee.
Databases with information on depositors who were tricked into funding unregulated deposit schemes have been successfully tracked down by the agency. “The CBI has captured the main defendant in a specific case involving AJRS Marketing Pvt. Ltd., who has been eluding law enforcement since filing a formal complaint. The spokeswoman stated that incriminating evidence was also found at the hideout where he was found in Siliguri. When investors who had invested large sums of money in 29-year-old Deepankar Barman’s stock company claimed that he had not paid their due returns and that his office had been shuttered since August 21, the state’s online trading scam was exposed in the last week of August.
