Tag: Fraud

Bhubaneswar: Former director of Air Odisha Aviation Pvt Ltd (AOAPL) Santosh Pani was arrested by the Khandagiri Police today on the basis of a NBW issued against him in connection with a fraud case. Sources said a complaint was filed against Pani on the allegation of cheating Sandeep Ray, son of former Union coal minister […]

Puri: As many as 100 youths were allegedly duped of Rs 1 crore by a Puri-based consultancy firm SCT Travel to Manpower on the pretext of jobs in overseas countries. According to sources, the consultancy firm, located at Kuchinda Vihar in Puri, cheated huge amount of money from the youths from Ganjam, Nayagarh, Puri, Khurda […]

Rourkela: Bandhamunda police today arrested three persons including a Railway mechanic fitter on the charge of defrauding the job aspirants with a promise to provide them jobs in Indian Railways. The arrested have been identified as Harry Anthony alias Harry, Bilkan Bhengra and Sugan Gudia. While Harry works as a mechanical fitter in Indian Railways, […]

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths today carried out searches at seven places, including the official residence of Himansu Kar alias Happy, as part of its investigation into the fraud committed by Motilala Gouda, the former assistant director of Factories & Boilers who is presently lodged at Jharapada jail for his involvement in the fake gazette notification scam. […]

New Delhi: CBI has initiated a preliminary enquiry against 34 budding cricketers and athletes of Odisha for allegedly manipulating their age records. CBI sources said the inquiry initiated by its Sports Integrity Unit has identified 34 sportsmen with regard to alleged age records fraud besides officials of Cuttack District Athletic Association and Odisha Cricket Association […]

Rourkela: The court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) here today granted interim bail to Jyotirani Sarangi, wife of the Seashore Group CMD Prashant Dash, who was arrested in a fraud case on June 7. The commissionerate police had arrested her in a fraud case in Laxmisagar area in Bhubaneswar on the basis of a non-bailable […]

Bhubaneswar: A shareholder of home-grown intra-state flight operator, Air Odisha, has filed a fraud case against the company at the Khandagiri police station. The complainant, identified as Sandeep Ray, son of BJP MLA Dilip Ray, had alleged in his complaint that that two cheques worth Rs 40 lakh given to him by the company has […]

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police’s Crime Branch on Saturday arrested three persons, including two State Bank of India (SBI) employees, on charges of disbursing loans on basis of fake documents and causing a loss of more than Rs 67 lakh to the nationalized bank

New York: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday presented charges against the founder of Tesla Inc., Elon Musk, accusing him of fraud after last month he announced on Twitter that he was planning to take the automaker private. The SEC, which filed its lawsuit in a New York court, says that Musk issued “false […]

Milan: Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona will sue his two daughters for allegedly defrauding him of $1,850,000, Italian media and Argentine television reported on Thursday. Maradona has instructed his lawyer to take legal action against his 30-year-old daughter Dalma and his 28-year-old daughter Gianinna for allegedly stealing the money and transferring it to a […]

New Delhi: An ATM fraudster, who has cheated at least 50 people over the last three years, has been arrested here, police said on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nupur Prasad said the accused Sandeep, 28, was arrested from Farsh Bazar area of east Delhi on Thursday. Prasad said that Sandeep, a resident of Punjab, […]

Ghaziabad: After arresting Mohit Goel, Director of Noida-based Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd, police said they were searching for four more directors of the company that launched the world’s cheapest smarphone. Goel was detained late on Thursday after an FIR was filed by Ghaziabad-based Ayam Enterprises, alleging that Ringing Bells defrauded it of Rs 16 lakh. […]

Bhubaneswar: Several investors today alleged Hi-Tech Estate and Promoters Private Limited of duping them on the pretext of providing houses. According to sources, investors alleged that Hi-Tech Estate had collected lakhs of rupees from them in the name of providing them houses in Sunderpada area on the outskirts of the city. Though they had booked […]

Indian agencies are engaged in getting details of 1,300 SIM cards as they were being used by a gang of Chinese to hack accounts and commit financial frauds, a suspected activity of a Chinese intelligence agency.

Kendrapara: Charges of embezzlement of money against secretary of Siko Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society (PACS) in Rajkanika of Kendrapara district has sparked outrage among the farmers in the area. The accused Ajay Behera has been charged with embezzling money worth lakhs of rupees by raising loans in the name of villagers. “I never even applied […]