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The scam was the biggest money market scam ever committed in India, amounting to approximately ₹ 5,000 crores. The main perpetrator of the scam was a stock and money market broker Harshad Mehta. It was a systematic stock scam using fake bank receipts and stamp paper that caused the Indian stock market to crash. The scam exposed the inherent ...
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Criminal charge. Stamp paper counterfeiting. Penalty. 13 years rigorous imprisonment. Abdul Karim Telgi (29 July 1961 – 23 October 2017) was an Indian counterfeiter. [ 1] He earned money by printing counterfeit stamp paper in India, with the size of the scam estimated to be around ₹3,000 billion (US$36 billion).
Thane, Maharashtra, India. Occupations. Businessman. stockbroker. Criminal penalty. 5 years rigorous imprisonment. Harshad Shantilal Mehta (29 July 1954 – 31 December 2001) was an Indian stockbroker and a convicted fraudster. Mehta's involvement in the 1992 Indian securities scam (about ₹30,000 Crores) made him infamous as a market manipulator.
Nirav Deepak Modi (born 27 February 1971) is an Indian-born Belgian businessman and criminal who was charged by Interpol and the Government of India for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and dishonesty including delivery of property, corruption, money laundering, fraud, embezzlement and breach of contract in August 2018. [3]
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada ( FINTRAC; French: Centre d'analyse des opérations et déclarations financières du Canada) is the national financial intelligence agency of Canada. FINTRAC was established in 2000 under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act to facilitate detection and investigation of ...
Left, 54, was charged with one count of engaging in a securities fraud scheme, 17 counts of securities fraud, and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. Each securities ...
The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit funds [ 1][ 2][ 3] in Eastern India. [ 4]
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...