CPI(M) has sought to establish deep links with the State Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress President with a firm collecting public money.
Senior CPI(M) leader Goutam Deb on Thursday alleged that Leaps & Bounds Pvt Ltd, a firm proclaimed to be in “finance” sector including “insurance”, had declared its address as that of Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
At a press conference, Deb said that Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of Mamata Banerjee and “founder, Chairman and Managing Director” of the firm, in signed declarations to the Registrar of Companies in West Bengal had last year provided the same address as his.
Quoting from the filings to the ROC, Deb, a former minister in the previous State Government, alleged the firm neither had registration with finance sector regulators such as RBI, SEBI or IRDA.
The firm was incorporated on April 19, 2012, Deb said. But its Website suggested that the incorporation was done in 2009, Deb alleged.
He said the filings suggested that 90 per cent of the equity of the firm was held by Abhishek, who is also the National President of All India Trinamoor YUVA (youth wing of the party).
He alleged that Bengal chief Minister’s nephew has been operating a "micro finance" company and collecting money in the state without required regulatory approvals.