Pearl Group owns 1,841 acres in Haryana, 44 properties in Ggn

The examination of Pearls Group chief Nirmal Singh Bhangoo by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has revealed that he owned a whopping 1,841 acres in Haryana and properties worth thousands of crores of rupees that he managed to mobilise by allegedly running ponzi scheme.

CBI sources said the agency has found that the company and its sister concerns have held 1,841 acres of land in various districts of Haryana, besides 44 commercial properties in Gurgaon. They said out of 44 commercial properties in Gurgaon, 14 are located in Global Foyer, the first luxury mall in the city.

The sources said these 44 commercial properties were purchased at Rs 92.5 crore, according to the sale deeds examined by the agency. The value of these properties must have gone up many folds, they said. They said the land bank of 1,841 acres is held by Pearls Agrotech Corporation Ltd (PACL) and its sister concerns in Gurgaon, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mahendragarh, Mewat, Panipat, Panchkula, Rewari and Sirsa.

Probe into the assets held by the PACL and the PGF, which were allegedly running ponzi scheme and collected over Rs 45,000 crore from five crore investors have also shown that the company had owned 66 commercial spaces in the posh Connaught Place area of the national Capital, they said.

Bhangoo, along with PACL MD and Promoter-Director Sukhdev Singh, Executive Director (Finance) Gurmeet Singh and Executive Director Subrata Bhattacharya, is in CBI custody in connection with alleged swindling of funds in ponzi schemes. The land bank owned by the company here alone was about 532 acres, they claimed. The emails seeking reaction of the company were not responded to.

During the probe against the group in the last two years, the CBI has found 1,300 “suspect” bank accounts of the company, its directors and associated firms, they said, adding the agency has frozen assets (mostly FD receipts) to the tune of Rs 280 crore.