The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Manoranjana Singh, ex-wife of former union minister and Congress leader Matang Singh, and businessman Shantanu Ghosh, in connection with the multi-crore Saradha Group chit-fund scam.

Matang is already under judicial custody in connection with the scam.

The duo were quizzed by the federal investigation agency for hours about their financial benefits from the Saradha chit-fund scam.

Manoranjana Singh was quizzed by the CBI about her financial benefits from the Saradha chit-fund scam

The Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Tapas Pal was also interrogated by the CBI sleuths for his Rose Valley and Saradha chit-fund scam.

The interrogation of Tapas Pal continued for about six hours. It was leant that Pal’s statement was also recorded by the CBI officers.

According to sources, Manoranjana allegedly took a staggering Rs 25 crore from Saradha Group chit-fund kingpin Sudipto Sen for selling off his channel. She was the managing director of NE Tv that was involved in a financial transaction with ponzi Saradha Group.

In his ‘tell-all’ letter to the CBI, Sen had named Manoranjana saying she was responsible for siphoning off a huge amount while settling a deal between Saradha Group and her firm Positive Group.

It was also mentioned in the letter that Manoranjana took the Saradha Group chief to Nalini Chidambaram, wife of former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, for settling the deal.

Manoranjana had earlier been interrogated by the central investigation agency in connection with the multi-crore chit-fund scam. The federal investigation agency sleuths had also raided her house in August last year.

She, along with some other high-profile people, was accused of complicity in the scam by Sudipta Sen in his 2013 letter to the central agency.