Monday, May 19, 2008

Rs.200 mn Mutual Fund scam unearthed in Chennai Sify.com 17 May 2008

Chennai, May 17: Police are on the lookout for three men who duped hundreds of investors of Rs.200 million through a fake mutual fund scheme here.
Police said Friday that they were looking for three promoters of the now defunct Swiss Mutual Fund, based in a southern suburb, who had floated the scheme on the internet.
The suspects - S. Shamsuddin, K. Venkatesh and R. Murugan - had promised the investors a complete recovery of the investment in 12 monthly instalments and a similar lifelong return.
Meanwhile, in another case, two employees of Quest Net have been arrested following over 8,000 complaints in the last 20 days of multi-level-marketing frauds worth over Rs.300 million.
The principal company in Malaysia, Gold Quest, had however denied any wrongdoing.

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