After coming into the radar of Indian law enforcement agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Shipan Kumer Basu has started frantic bids in hiding crimes committed by him, his wife Sabita Biswas Basu and their scam racket named World Hindu Struggle Committee (WHSC). Ever since Prasanna Kumar Roy, nephew of West Bengal junior minister Partha Chatterjee and his mistresses named Arpita Mukherjee, Monalisa Das and others started emerging into media, a shrewd Shipan Kumer Basu has deleted all his Facebook posts and photographs praising Prasanna Kumar Roy, while the website of WHSC has been reshuffled repeatedly with the ulterior motive of hiding its criminal activities. Shipan, a cohort of corrupt Trinamool Congress leaders has also been posting his photographs with leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on his social media accounts. On August 28, 2022 (at 8:49 pm), he posted a photograph of Twitter handle with BJP leader Locket Chatterjee stating: “A picture taken at the time of introduction and discussion about Hindus in Bangladesh with Mrs. Locket Chatterjee, Hon’able Member of Lok Sabha and popular woman leader of West Bengal BJP”.
We have found several posts on Shipan Kumer Basu’s Twitter handle, which clearly prove his ulterior motive of using photographs of several eminent politicians and individuals in fooling people and extorting money from them. Here are some of the examples:
On June 5, 2022, Shipan posted a photograph with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath titled “I extend love and respect #turned_50_years old to #YogiAdityanath, as a dynamic #chief_minister of #Uttar_Pradesh, #India. I wish you a more prosperous political life and good health and longevity. On behalf of #whsc”.
While following the arrest of Prasanna Kumar Roy, a culprit Shipan Kumer Basu told an Indian television channel that he does not know who Prasanna Kumar Roy is, we have already identified a number of photographs of Shipan Kumer Basu with Prasanna Kumar Roy holding meeting with several individuals. As seeing this report, Shipan may delete these photographs, we already have started archiving lots of items centering his dubious activities.
Shipan Kumer Basu maintains at least 5 IDs of Facebook. One of these IDs are dedicated in prominently portraying the so-called advisers and ‘Financial Adviser’ of WHSC. We have found specific evidences on one such IDs showing the intimacy between Shipan Kumer Basu and Prasanna Kumar Roy.
The dubious website of WHSC
After remaining parked for more than 36 hours, the website of World Hindu Struggle Committee (WHSC) is back with so many of its contents and pages been deleted by Shipan Kumer Basu and his cohorts.
While the fake address of WHSC at Action Area, Newtown, Kolkata- 700156, West Bengal, India remains unchanged, Shipan Kumer Basu has deleted the page that was containing names of several individuals as the advisers of WHSC.
In the ‘Our Donor’ page, WHSC gives four names such as Avijit Mukharjee, Anik Chowdhury, Pandey [not the full name], and James Jonakson. Although we are not sure of existence of Avijit Mukharjee, Anik Chowdhury or Pandey, we have already confirmed that the name ‘James Jonakson’ as donor of WHSC is totally fake.
For years, Shipan Kumer Basu and his wife Sabita Biswas Basu have been taking undisclosed amount of money from various individuals by using a dubious entity like World Hindu Struggle Committee. According to our information, WHSC was receiving ‘donation’ through PayPal, Stripe, and through bank and bKash. Although WHSC claims to be registered by the Indian government [Registration number 150200055], it is unknown how Shipan Kumer Basu and Sabita Biswas Basu were receiving ‘donation’ by bKash, which is exclusively a Bangladesh e-payment apps. This particular evidence clearly proves, Shipan Kumer Basu was having his representative in Bangladesh to receive ‘donation’ via bKash and later sent it to Basus through illegal channels.
Shipan Kumer Basu’s connections with SSC Scam
Prasanna Kumar Roy, nephew of scandalous bribe-taker Partha Chatterjee, leader of West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee’s confidante now is at media’s focal point because of his involvement with the IRS 500 million bribe scandal. On August 26, 2022, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Prasanna Kumar Roy, who is known as the second middleman in the infamous SSC bribe scam case. Prasanna, hailing from a poor family has already emerged into an extremely wealthy individual owning numerous business establishments and houses in India, while he also owns hotels in Dubai, Darjeeling, Uttarakhand, and Puri. Additionally, he owns at least five properties near New Town and a massive farm house. CBI is also checking if the illegal SSC recruitment scam funds were used to purchase all these properties. Prior to his meteoric rise, he once earned living as a house painter.
The West Bengal Teacher’s recruitment scam, more commonly referred to as the SSC scam, looks into the recruitment process conducted through the State Level Selection Test (SLT) conducted by SSC from 2014 to 2016.
Candidates who appeared for the State Level Selection Test (SLST) exam had alleged that many candidates who secured fewer marks ended up with higher ranks on the merit list. They further stated that the candidates who were not on the merit list were also sent appointment letters.
According to The Times of India, Prasanna Kumar Roy is believed to have made hefty investments in films over the years. Investigators have come across a Salt Lake based production house in Kolkata, India, with which Prasanna was associated. He has links to at least 84 companies probing his massive investment in the entertainment industry.
Prasanna Kumar Roy has also invested hugely in mining and querying companies.
According to our information, Prasanna Kumar Roy has business and financial connections with Salauddin Ahmed, a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician who served as the state minister of communication and a member of parliament from Cox’s Bazar-1 constituency during 2001–2006. For the past several years, Salauddin Ahmed is living in Shillong in northeastern part of India and has been running stone businesses. Back in 2018, East Khashi Hill District and Sessions Judge’s Court in Meghalaya, India acquitted Salauddin Ahmed in a case filed against him over trespassing into India. Following this verdict, Ahmed’s lawyer said, “We have been awarded justice. The verdict proves he [Salauddin Ahmed] is innocent. Noe there is no bar for him to return to Bangladesh”.
But, Salauddin Ahmed did not return to Bangladesh even during the past four years. Instead, he has been running stone business with Prasanna Kumar Roy while it is also alleged that he was involved in transnational money-laundering activities thus helping Partha Chatterjee in laundering millions of dollars from India to a number of countries in the world.
Another accomplice of Prasanna Kumar Roy is Shipan Kumer Basu, a Bangladesh national who fled the country in 2016 when his connections with Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami and few radical Islamic militancy outfits were exposed and criminal charges were pressed against him. Sitting in India, Shipan Kumer Basu and his wife Sabita Biswas Basu have been falsely claiming to be representatives of Israeli Likud Party while Shipan was openly proclaiming himself as an agent of Israeli Mossad. There are numerous allegations against this couple of collecting money from various individuals in Bangladesh and India under the false pretense of “international campaign in favor of Hindus”.
Shipan Kumer Basu has been guided by an individual named Mendi N Safadi, an Israeli Druze. For years, Basu and Safadi have been receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from several leaders of BNP, including Aslam Chowdhury. BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury is also shown in the advisory board of Basu’s dubious Hindu Struggle Committee.
On his Facebook ID, Shipan Kumer Basu claims himself as “Colonel at International Police Commission Philippines”. According to internet sources, office of the original International Police Commission Philippines in located at Unit H, FMSG Building, 1823, E. Rodgriguez Sr. Avenue, Quezon City, 1112 Metro Manila, Philippines. But Shipan Kumer Basu is the so-called Colonel of a Facebook group named International Police Commission Philippines.
Under the garb of World Hindu Struggle Committee, Shipan Kumer Basu has been involved in money-laundering and drug and human trafficking activities.
