Covid-19 recovered I-Core scam accused dies of heart attack in Odisha capital

BHUBANESWAR: Nearly two months after recovering from Covid-19 infection, Anukul Maity, a prime accused in the I-Core Group chit fund scam, died of a heart attack on Saturday evening.
Maity (55), who had been lodged in Jharpada special jail in Bhubaneswar since April 2017, complained of chest pain on Saturday and was taken to Capital Hospital here where he died, prisons authorities
said.
Maity was MD of the I-Core Group, which has been accused of cheating hundreds of investors in West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Punjab and Odisha of nearly Rs 3,000 crore. The CBI has been probing the chit fund scam across 44 companies, including the I-Core Group, since April 2014.
“Around 7 pm on Saturday, Maity was in his cell when he complained of chest pain. We took him to Capital Hospital in an ambulance. He died during treatment in the hospital. Doctors said he had suffered a massive heart attack,” Jharpada special jail’s superintendent Dhirendranth Barik told TOI.
Barik said Maity had been suffering heart-related ailment, hypertension and diabetes ever since he was lodged in judicial custody here in 2017. “We have come to know that Maity had had stents
implanted in his body before he arrived in the jail in 2017. He was also suffering from hypertension and diabetes. Jail doctors had been monitoring his health regularly. He was under medication,” Barik said.
The jail authorities denied any negligence in his treatment. The jail superintendent said Maity underwent a routine health check-up at the cardiology wing of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on Friday, a day before his death. “Along with some other inmates, he had tested positive for Covid-19 and had recovered,” Batik said.
The jail authorities have informed Maity’s family and the CBI about his death. His family members were unavailable for comment.
Maity and his wife Kanika had been arrested by West Bengal Police in 2015 for allegedly cheating investors. Kanika is currently out on bail.
Sources said the I-Core Group ran at least 15 sister concerns. The company stopped its operations after the Saradha Group went bust in April 2013.
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