The CBI received information that they would drop names of senior bureaucrats and political functionaries to impress clients approaching them for some work either directly or through middleman like Abhishek Boora.
According to reports, 6 officials, NGO representatives being questioned by CBI over alleged FCRA violations and Rs 2 crore hawala transactions detected so far.
The CBI has been probing Yes Bank's former co-founder Rana Kapoor and DHFL since March 2020.
The CBI had registered a case on the consent of Jammu and Kashmir government and further notification from the central government in 2018 and taken over probe from the state police that during the period 2012 to 2016.
A CBI spokesperson said that the agency sleuths carried out the searches led to the recovery of several incriminating documents.
Recently, the CBI had quizzed several people connected with the Saradha chit fund scam as the state of West Bengal prepares for an eight-phased staggered Assembly election starting March 27.
The move is part of preventive vigilance to check corruption at locations where public dealing takes place.
The agency did not give out much details about the case in which its own personnel are under scanner for allegedly taking huge amounts of bribe from the accused companies in bank fraud cases being probed by them, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided 14 locations associated with Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president DK Shivakumar and his brother Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha MP, DK Suresh on Monday.
Yes Bank Crisis Live Updates: The CBI carried out searches at seven locations, including Rana Kapoor's house on Monday in connection with the Yes Bank scam pertaining to the Rs 600 crore alleged bribe to the family of its co-founder Rana Kapoor by DHFL.
The searches were conducted at the premises of then District Collectors or District Magistrates in Kupwara, Barmulla, Udhampur, Kishtwar, Shopian, Rajouri, Doda and Pulwama, the agency said.
Several teams of the central probe agency were carrying out searches at nine locations including Aizawl, Imphal, and Gurgaon in the case of misappropriation of government funds, a senior CBI officer said.
The phone-tapping controversy came to light during the elections when an alleged phone conversation was leaked to the media in which an IPS officer was named.
The CBI has registered two separate cases related to alleged illegal sand mining in Uttar Pradesh and conducted searches at 12 locations in eight cities of Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the residence of Bulandshahr District Magistrate Abhay Kumar Singh on Wednesday in connection to a probe in illegal mining.
The CBI on Tuesday carried out searches at 110 locations in 19 states in connection with fresh cases related to alleged corruption, arms smuggling and criminal misconduct. It has registered 30 fresh cases.
CBI carries out 'special operation' against banking fraud accused at 50 locations across country
The company deliberately defaulted on repayment and also claimed inadmissible credit causing a loss approximately of of Rs 2,348 crore to the banks, the CBI alleged.
Chandrakala has been in news in the past for her anti-corruption crusade. Videos of the woman IAS officer reprimanding erring civic official had gone viral on social media a few months ago.
The searches by the agency span across six cities in five states, in connection with the fraud involving Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and other family members.
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