Linking threads amid IMA ponzi scheme scam case, CBI questions former Karnataka minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan

New Delhi, September 20: Post IMA founder Mansoor Khan's arrest and a detailed inquiry for duping lakhs of investors, the CBI on Thursday moved up questioning former Karanataka minister Zameer Ahmed Khan in connection with I-Monetary Advisory scam in which the company promised high returns to the investors using Islamic ways of investment.

 

 

"Former Karnataka food and civil supplies minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan was called at the agency office where he was questioned by the CBI team probing the IMA scam", the statement read.

 

Taking over the investigation into case on August 30 night on the request of the Karanataka government, the CBI has already filed its first charge sheet against alleged mastermind Mansoor Khan and others on September 7, within eight days of taking over the case.

 

The company IMA and its subsidiaries had allegedly duped over a lakh investors, mostly Muslims, promising high returns using Islamic ways of investment. "It was alleged that the founder director of group of entities based at Bangalore had illegally collected deposits from the public in the form of investments on various ponzi schemes such as monthly plan, education plan, marriage plan, with a promise of getting high returns," a CBI spokesperson had said after the FIR.

 

The alleged mastermind of the ponzi scam was arrested on July 21 on his arrival in New Delhi by the Enforcement Directorate and is currently in judicial custody.