Bhubaneswar, Feb. 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed preliminary chargesheet in the money laundering scam by Naba Diganta, a money deposit collection company.

The 130-page chargesheet mentions the names of six company functionaries, including Mayurbhanj MP Rama Chandra Hansdah, former BJD MLA Subarna Naik and former BJP MLA Hitesh Bagarti. The central agency had arrested these leaders on November 4 last year.

The three, Hansdah, Nayak and Bagarti, had worked as the directors of the company from 2011 to 2013, a period during which the Ponzi company flourished. The company had allegedly acquired a share capital of Rs 100 crore by cheating nearly 20,000 people.

The chargesheet also mentioned the names of another company's CMD Anjan Kumar Baliarsingh and two other directors Kartikeya Parida and Pradeep Patnaik. The central agency had arrested all of them on October 26 last year.

Though the company had allegedly swindled around Rs 100 crore from thousands of investors, the preliminary chargesheet mentioned the fraud worth Rs 8.39 crore. "This is a preliminary chargesheet, and the total amount of fraud is likely to increase as the investigation is still going on," said a CBI official. The chargesheet - mentioning 110 witnesses and a list of seized documents - was submitted in the court of the special chief judicial magistrate, CBI.

The company had swindled the investors through four companies Naba Diganta Capital Services Ltd (NCSL), Naba Diganta Agro Industries Ltd (NAIL), Naba Diganta Project Limited and Nabadiganta Properties Limited.

The company had opened as many as 50 accounts in various nationalised banks at several locations in the state, including Berhampur and Bhubaneswar, and collected the money from investors by promising them attractive returns.

The CBI had raided the residences of the three political leaders in July last year and also seized cash worth Rs 28 lakh from Hansdah's residence in Mayurbhanj. The MP was arrested after he had frequently changed his version on the cash seized from his residence.

Baliarsingh told the CBI that the company had collected Rs 14.7 crore from investors but could return only Rs 7.27 crore to them. However, the documents produced by the company failed to substantiate his claims.

The CBI had also filed preliminary chargesheet against Green India, Artha Tatwa (AT) Group and Micro Finance Limited in connection with ongoing investigation into the money deposit collection companies in the state.