New Delhi: A Delhi-based couple was arrested from Kolkata for duping several banks by forging documents, police said Saturday. Kamal Kishore Shukla, 60, and his wife Shashi Shukla, 53 were arrested on May 15 from Kolkata.
The duo had obtained housing loans from different banks against a single property in Vaishali area of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, adjoining Delhi, with the help of fake documents and had even sold the same property to many different buyers, said police. "They were on the run since 2007 and had caused a loss of over Rs 85 lakh to as many as seven banks in Ghaziabad and Noida (Delhi suburbs) as well as two individuals," said an official.
Their arrest came when they tried to cheat a bank in Kolkata using similar methods but were caught.
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03:35 PM, May 14, 2013
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09:30 AM, May 14, 2013
Kolkata: Accusing the Left of failing to protect investors in ponzi schemes during its prolonged rule in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday hit back after Left leaders met the Prime Minister and Finance Minister seeking a CBI probe into the chit fund scam. "Who are asking for a CBI probe today? It is those who were unable to pass an effective bill to rein in chit fund companies...
06:47 PM, May 09, 2013
Milan: A Milan appeals court upheld a four-year sentence for tax fraud against former prime minister and centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday, adding to the complications facing Italy's fragile coalition government. In addition to the jail sentence for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his television network Mediaset, the court's ruling would also bar Berlusconi from holding public office for five years. However, neither...
07:40 AM, May 09, 2013
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05:55 PM, May 08, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A scam as big as the chit fund fraud in West Bengal has been exposed, but this time it is in Odisha. A CNN-IBN exclusive shows how fraudulent investment companies are duping investors in the state. Investors have been swindled off nearly Rs 20,000 crore by 40 finance companies in Odisha. Seashore Group, one of the companies being probed by Odisha police, has duped over 80,000 investors and collected...
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Kolkata: The West Bengal chit fund is getting bigger each day. It has now turns out that ponzi schemes in the state financed not just media houses but Tollywood films as well. In the past four years, at least one in three films has been produced by groups that run ponzi schemes. Rose Valley, a deposit-taking company which is now under the MCA scanner, has produced 18 films including three...
08:42 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Kolkata: In the wake of the collapse of the Saradha Group, an under pressure Mamata Banerjee is all set to bring a new law that allows takeover of chit fund companies and confiscation of properties. The opposition though has slammed the move saying the Bill has nothing new. This comes even as another investor committed suicide in Purulia. The draft of the new Bill that was circulated among West Bengal's...
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11:48 AM, Apr 26, 2013
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03:38 PM, Apr 25, 2013
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05:38 AM, Apr 23, 2013
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04:44 PM, Apr 22, 2013
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08:35 AM, Apr 21, 2013
