Face2News/Dehradun (Utterakhand)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Sushil Gokhroo and 04 other persons, namely, Rajendra Singh Bisht, Tarun Kumar Mourya, Gaurav Rohilla and Mamta Bhandari, from different locations in the country, in LUCC Chit Fund Scam of Uttarakhand.
It may be recalled that Hon’ble High Court of Uttrakhand, Nainital Bench had passed orders transferring all the FIRs pertaining to M/s Loni Urban Multi State Credit and Thrift Co-operative Society (LUCC) Chit Fund Scam to CBI in the Year 2025, based on which the CBI has registered a case on 26.11.2025 under various sections of IPC, BNS and Uttrakhand Protection of Interests of Depositors Act and Banning of Unregulated Deposits Schemes Act against various office bearers of LUCC and others.
Investigation so far has brought forth an unprecedented scale of victimisation of public in the State of Uttrakhand in which a very large number of investors (more than 1 lakh approx.) were lured to invest in various unregulated deposit schemes of LUCC. The total investment/ deposits made by these depositors is estimated to the tune of Rs.800 crores approx. Part repayments were made but the fraud amount is more than Rs.400 crores.
Investigation in this case is going on a day to day basis and special team has been constituted to track and trace the accused based on technical surveillance and source informations. The main accused in this case is Sameer Agrawal, who along with his wife Saniya Agrawal have absconded abroad and CBI has opened notices and circulars against them.
Investigation has also revealed that several immovable properties were acquired by the accused persons from the proceeds of crime and details about these properties have been shared with the competent authority which is Secretary, Finance, Government of Uttrakhand with a request to freeze these properties and take necessary action to distribute them to the victims under the provisions of Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes (BUDS) Act 2019.
Investigation is continuing.
