kolkata the cbi has named nalini chidambaram wife of former finance minister p chidambaram in the sixth supplementary chargesheet filed in the saradha realty case on monday nalini has been named neither as witness nor accused but as one privy to certain information on the controversial channel deal the central agency said it might look into the information she was privy to at a later stage she was a lawyer of manoranjana sinh one of the accused in the saradha case her name came up as her fees had been paid from saradha money said a cbi officer on monday nalinis name first cropped up in the purported letter from saradha boss sudipta sen to cbi in april 2013 where it was claimed that she had been paid from saradha accounts according to an sfio report on the saradha muddle nalini chidambaram was the sole arbitrator of the deal signed between sudipta and saradha group on june 21 2010 the report claims that she was seemingly paid for her professional services as lawyer sources say that during interrogation manoranjana claimed that the mou and agreement between saradha and gnn india were drafted by nc associates in chennai as nalini was looking after her corporate affairs the saradha boss had earlier claimed before investigators that the deal was drafted in favour of manoranjana there have been questions about how much nalini was paid but no cbi officer would comment on it the case is being probed by three central investigating agencies cbi ed and sfio banking details with the investigators reportedly reveal that nalini was paid rs 6585 lakh between june 2010 and september 2012 but the tds filed by the saradha group shows a payment of rs 15 crore to her from marchjune 2011 a tds of rs 15 lakh was deducted from that say sources what has surprised investigators is the number of emails sudipta sent to nalini to try and establish his credibility in an email on october 2011 sudipta tells nalini that he had not done due diligence of the company gnn india beforehand he believed that nalinis presence her name and her fame in the world had given them the confirmation that everything will be correctly executed the saradha boss had told her that a trinamool congress mp and saradha vicepresident somnath dutta could give her an appraisal report of the company according to sources manoranjana started getting sceptical about saradhas background and expressed her misgivings to nalini in an email in september 2011 manoranjana reportedly told nalini that many of sudiptas clandestine and dubious operations were under the investigation of rbi sebi and cid in kolkata and assam notices from ed and income tax department had become a part of his life she wrote reportedly telling nalini that no business of sudipta sen makes money and that he loses money in each one of them the chargesheet details the role of manoranjana and santanu ghosh both of whom are in custody in