The CBI today interrogated Trinamool Congress MPs Sudip Bandopadhyay and Tapas Paul in Bhubaneswar to find out their alleged links with 17 thousand crore rupees Rose Valley chit fund scam. The interrogation will continue tomorrow. A CBI statement said Sudip has been charged under various sections of IPC sections, including cheating and criminal conspiracy and various sections of Prize, Chits and Money Circulation (Banning) Act of 1978.<br/> <br/>' Besides, Sudip's wife Nayna Bandyopadhyay, an MLA herself, today appeared before CBI in Bhubaneswar. It is not clear whether Nayna deposed before the CBI or she on her own had gone to the office to meet her husband who is in CBI custody. Official sources said she spent more than one hour in the Bhubaneswar CBI office.<br/><br/>'Earlier, CBI had arrested TMC MP Tapas Pal in connection with the same case and kept him in remand for three days, whose remand period expires tomorrow.<br/>

The Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI is interrogating Trinamool Congress MPs Sudip Bandopadhyay and Tapas Paul together in Bhubaneswar to find out their alleged links with 17 thousand crore rupees Rose Valley chit fund scam.<br/><br/>Quoting sources, AIR correspondent informed that the probing agency is concentrating its interrogation to find out who were among the influential people, whom the Rose Valley company boss Gautam Kundu would keep in good homour with expensive gifts, foreign trips and offering jobs to their relatives. CBI sources said, the agency is looking into other benefits Sudip may have received from Kundu. <br/><br/>The CBI is likely to find out the links of politicians and ministers benefitted by these two TMC MPs and to what extent they have benefitted the Rose Valley chit fund firm. It may be noted that since Sudip's wife is an MLA in West Bengal, the investigating officials may find out if she also had any links with the chit fund scam. <br/><br/>A four-time MP and former Union minister Sudip, is the fifth and most high-profile Trinamool leader to be arrested and interrogated in Ponzi scam related cases so far. Yesterday, Trinamool Congress, TMC Parliamentary Party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay was produced before the Special CBI court in Bhubaneswar which granted him 6 days' CBI remand for further interrogation.