{"id":305314,"date":"2018-11-08T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305314"},"modified":"2018-11-08T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:49:15","slug":"ccb-launches-manhunt-to-nab-former-bjp-minister-reddy-in-ponzi-scheme-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ccb-launches-manhunt-to-nab-former-bjp-minister-reddy-in-ponzi-scheme-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CCB launches manhunt to nab former BJP minister Reddy in Ponzi scheme case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/ccb-launches-manhunt-to-nab-former-bjp-minister-reddy-in-ponzi-scheme-case\/janardhan-reddy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305315\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305315 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/janardhan-reddy-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/janardhan-reddy-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/janardhan-reddy-509x420.jpg 509w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/janardhan-reddy.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have launched a massive manhunt to nab G Janardhan Reddy, Ballari-based mining baron and former BJP minister, in connection with a money transaction worth crores of rupees allegedly linked to a ponzi scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy Commissioner of Police Girish S said that CCB sleuths conducted a search at Reddy&#8217;s Bengaluru residence and also seized some documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bengaluru Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar said that Reddy was absconding and police were looking for him to question him in connection with the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI came to know about the incident on media. I have no information on this. Law will take its course, nobody is above law,\u201d Reddy&#8217;s close aide and BJP MLA Sriramulu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CCB officials said that Syed Ahmed Fareed of Ambidant Marketing Pvt Ltd, the prime accused in over Rs 600 crore ponzi scam, had revealed during the probe that he had given Reddy Rs 18 crore after he promised to help \u2018settle\u2019 a case against him that was being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Police said, when ED has begun probing the case, Fareed allegedly contacted Ali Khan, Reddy\u2019s close associate and personal assistant, to help him get rid of the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bengaluru Police Commissioner added, &#8220;Based on the information gathered the investigation is going on further&#8230;CCB is after Ali Khan and Janardhan Reddy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have launched a massive manhunt to nab G Janardhan Reddy, Ballari-based mining baron and former BJP minister, in connection with a money transaction worth crores of rupees allegedly linked to a ponzi scheme. Deputy Commissioner of Police Girish S said that CCB sleuths conducted a search at Reddy&#8217;s Bengaluru residence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[9598,9595,1343,453,9593,9594,9596,9597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305317,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305314\/revisions\/305317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}