India, May 21 -- Continuing its crackdown on what is probably the first Nidhi Company Fraud in Odisha, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Crime Branch arrested two more persons for their alleged involvement in a ponzi scheme scam to the tune of crores in the State. The accused were identified as Dwipika Bhanjo and Tandra Bhanjo, wife and daughter, respectively of Tusar Bhanjo, the main accused who was allegedly running ponzi scheme through his Nidhi firm in Odisha. Tusar was arrested last year from Kolkata following a complaint filed by a Bhubaneswar resident named Manmohan Dora.

The accused mother-daughter duo was nabbed from Hamirpur, Paschim Medinapur in West Bengal and brought to Bhubaneswar on a three-day transit remand. They will be...