Promised ₹18k to make bored women happy, man loses ₹1.3L

Mumbai:

A 32-year-old man recently fell prey to a honeytrap as well as his greed and ended up losing Rs 1.3 lakh in 24 hours before approaching the police.


Ravikumar Gupta (name changed), the technician with a diamond polishing unit in Sakinaka, got a call on January 31 from a woman claiming to be from a “friendship club”. She told Gupta that they were looking for men who could entertain rich, bored housewives and earn Rs 18,000 per appointment.

Gupta fell for it hook, line and sinker, and kept making payments. The police managed to freeze the account where he transferred funds, including part of a loan taken to buy property. In a brazen retort, when the cops spoke to the fraudsters, they said they would refund Gupta’s money once the account is de-freeze.

Gupta convinced himself an additional income from woman clients will help pay the Rs 15,400 EMI against the Rs 5.6 lakh loan. “I was told that the club will arrange the meetings (with women clients) and I can earn a regular income,” Gupta told TOI. The police acted immediately after a written complaint from Gupta on February 1, but the FIR was registered on Monday.

After convincing Gupta, the caller asked him to pay Rs 2,000 as registration fee. “The woman asked me to attend a meeting and sought another Rs 10,000 as meeting fee. Once these payments were made, she sent four photos of women and asked me to choose. She said I would get a call from the one I chose, but the meeting could not be in any place and asked me to book a hotel for which the client would compensate. So I deposited Rs 32,000 on her instruction. Later, the tele-caller said if I deposited Rs 36,000, the hotel room would be booked for the entire month and I will receive a gold card and cash reward points,” Gupta said.

On February 1, the tele-caller again got in touch with Gupta and said he had to undergo a health check-up and the report had to be shown to the client before the appointment could take place. He was asked to deposit another Rs 46,000 and “told that a man will visit his address and conduct the check-up. He realised he had been duped when no one came till 5pm”, said the police.

A case under IPC sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 34 (common intention) have been filed and the Sakinaka Cyber Cell is looking into the case, said DCP (zone X), Navinchandra Reddy.

2 card payment firm staffers arrested in ₹3cr refund scam

Mumbai:

Two employees of a card payment processor have been arrested for allegedly siphoning off Rs 3 crore from the company’s accounts by initiating fraudulent refunds of transactions that never took place.


On Tuesday, cyber police arrested Mahesh Dyavanpelly (31) from his Worli residence after his name cropped up in the scam. This is the second arrest in the case. Last week, they had arrested Zulfikar Ali Nafi, another employee, from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Dyavanpelly was a risk executive handling card transactions, disputes and recovery. Police told TOI the arrest of the two employees could be just the tip of the iceberg and that more individuals might be involved in the scam.

The company, Mswipe Technologies, offers point of sale terminals which enable merchants to collect credit and debit card payments.

Police said the fraud took place between April 2017 and March 2018 and was unearthed only recently during an audit. Auditors learnt that 33 debit cards were swiped for 406 transactions with the help of 16 merchants and a total of Rs 3 crore was transferred to a few accounts which were found to be suspicious.

The company has two accounts with Corporation Bank and Ratnakar Bank, respectively. A third party, Hitachi Payment Services, based in Chennai, processes fund transfers.

Auditors found that some refunds were generated after customers cancelled their orders and returned the goods.

During the 2017-18 audit, officials stumbled upon fake refunds totalling Rs 3 crore. Further scrutiny revealed that the amount was refunded to 16 merchants, five of whom were shown as based in Delhi and two in Srinagar, Kashmir. The officials tried to contact these merchants but found they did not exist.

“With technical help, we found the trail of money and arrested Zulfikar from Coimbatore. Dyavanpelly’s name cropped up during his interrogation. We found that Rs 10 lakh was transferred into Dyavanpelly's accounts and a few lakhs into his relative’s accounts. His relative is under the scanner too,” said officer.

Police said they have invoked Indian Penal Code sections 408 for criminal breach of trust by a clerk or a servant, and for cheating and forgery, besides IT Act. Police said the accused reportedly operated fictitious accounts.

Ajay Dubey, advocate for Dyavanpelly, said, “My client is innocent as some insider has transferred funds into his brother’s accounts and has framed him in the case. We will fight our case on merit at the appropriate time.”

Mahesh Bhogale, whose latest scheme was to rent expensive cameras and cars and sell them

Thane: Man held for ‘cheating’ people of Rs 94 lakh
Police said no one doubted him because he was fluent in English, but as soon as he got his hands on the money, he escaped.

A 36-year-old man from Mahabaleshwar has been arrested for allegedly cheating people of Rs 94 lakh through various online schemes. Police said he had cheated people for years to maintain a lavish lifestyle, adding that he was educated and jobless, but his firm grasp on English made it easy for him to con people.



The man was identified as Mahesh Bhogale, whose latest scheme was to rent expensive cameras and cars and sell them. “We lodged an FIR against Bhogale who rented several cameras, cars and other white goods. He contacted people over online sites and apps. He’d go off the grid after taking the goods, switch off his mobile phone and give fake addresses,” said a senior officer, adding that he was traced through his IP address and other technical markers.

“Our team traced him in Sindhudurg where his village is and eventually in Mahabaleshwar from where he was arrested on December 22,” further said the officer, adding that he was earlier arrested in another case of cheating in 2015.

An investigating officer said, “He is wanted by the Thane economic offences wing for cheating nine people of Rs 51 lakh. He also has cheating cases registered against him in Pune and other police stations. He once sold 15 defunct laptops to people and also conned people by showing them land for sale that belonged to someone else.”

Police further said no one doubted him because he was fluent in English, but as soon as he got his hands on the money, he escaped. “He would stay in posh hotels and spend lavishly on clothes and modes of transport. He has made a living out of cheating,” further said the senior officer.

Bhogale was remanded to police custody till December 28. “We have informed other police stations where cases are registered against him; they want his custody too. We are investigating for accomplices,” added the officer.

Online car sale scam: Two arrested

Dhawan and Shah would allegedly contact second-hand car dealers and pick up vehicles on which there were outstanding loans.

Thane crime branch on Friday arrested two men from an alleged gang of four that would cheat people through online marketing. The accused would allegedly buy cheap, used vehicles using forged cheques and then prepare fake documents to sell those as brand new vehicles, police said.

According to Thane Crime Branch, Unit V, the police received multiple complaints from buyers and sellers cheated by the group. “We have arrested two men, both highly educated. There are more people involved,” said a senior officer. The two accused, from Palghar, have been identified as Rohit Dhawan (30) and Ronit Shah (35), the police said. “The accused had allegedly hatched the plan after watching a YouTube video, ‘How to make easy money’. They had many fake ID cards that they used to create fake accounts for online marketing applications,” an officer said.

Dhawan and Shah would allegedly contact second-hand car dealers and pick up vehicles on which there were outstanding loans. “They used to ask for scanned copies of RC book and other documents. Once those came in, they would give spurious cheques to the owners and switch off their mobile phones,” the officer said. They would then forge the papers, and post the same vehicles for sale on the app, this time from a different account, the officer said. The police said the accused sold two cars for Rs 5 lakh. “Three cases have been registered,” an officer said.

Quirky Technology ponzi scheme Sumit Sharma and Sumail Khan Rahul Saksena were arrested

Two Sakinaka firm directors arrested for Rs 32 crore fraud
Directors of Quirky Technology were arrested after a ponzi scheme run by the firm was exposed. The accused ran a platform through which they solicited investment and offered returns of up to 10 per cent every month.

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Sumail Khan and Sumit Sharma have been arrested, while Rahul Saksena (right) is absconding.
Two directors of a private firm in Sakinaka were arrested on Friday, on charges of duping nearly 1,200 people of at least Rs 32 crore.



The arrests followed after a group of irate men barged into the office of Quirky Technology at Sagar Plaza in Sakinaka and searched for the officials of the top management on August 29, demanding their money. It was then that the ponzi scheme that Quirky Technology was allegedly operating was exposed, as the firm’s executives panicked and made phone calls to the police to save them from angry investors.

Over a week after the Sakinaka police station responded to that call and recorded statements of the investors, on Friday, it arrested Sumit Sharma (30) and Sumail Khan (34), the firm’s directors, and booked them under the Maharashtra Protection of Interests of Depositors Act. The police have also booked Rahul Saksena, the firm’s Chief Executive Officer and alleged brains behind the scheme. Saksena is absconding, the police said.

The three men have accused of cheating over 1,200 investors of at least Rs 32 crore since March 2017.


The police have accused the men of running a platform P2P Easy, through which they solicited investment and offered returns of up to 10 per cent every month. Quirky Technology runs as a Peer-to-Peer lending platform allowing individuals and institutions to lend money to borrowers of their choice. It allows both lenders and borrowers to sign up on its website and carry out what it claims are hassle-free transactions.

“The accused claimed that they invest the money in real estate and banks,” said N D Reddy, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone X.

As many as 430 people from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, who invested amounts ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 15 lakh each, submitted written complaints to the police, claiming that they had been cheated by the firms, which had branches in Sakinaka, Marol and Vashi, the police said.

Rohit Shroff, a 32-year-old general manager at a leading software firm and a Wadala resident, claimed to have lost Rs 4.7 lakh since January. “I got to know of this firm through a friend and invested Rs 2 lakh of my savings in January. After receiving returns every month until April, I invested more money. But since July, the firm stopped issuing returns,” he said.


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Like other investors, Shroff was given a lender’s agreement by the firm and was issued two post-dated cheques in July, both of which bounced, he claimed.

By then, he had come in contact with other investors with similar stories. “I have friends who lost investments of Rs 7 lakh and Rs 15 lakh. We have formed a WhatsApp group with 250 investors and decided to meet Saksena on August 29,” Shroff added.

So far, the police have collated claims filed by investors who approached them, froze Quirky Technology’s bank accounts, seized its computers and began tabulating its assets.

Sumail Khan and Sumit Sharma have been arrested, while Rahul Saksena (right) is absconding. 

“The accused stopped returning deposits of the investors from April. So far, it amounts to Rs 32 crore but as more investors are filing complaints, we expect the amount to rise to between Rs 50 and 100 crore,” Reddy said. He added that the firm did not have clearance from the Reserve Bank of India to carry out its activities. The police are also investigating bank accounts of 1,400 individuals to whom the accused allegedly transferred money online.

He added that several employees of Quirky Technology were also among its investors. The employees, the police said consisted mainly of freshers hired through online job portals. “They were paying new MBA graduates Rs 1 lakh a month and doubling their salaries if they brought in more investors. They also paid their receptionist Rs 50,000 a month,” he said.

Khan and Sharma, the police claimed, studied only till class 11 and class 12 respectively. They were picked up from their home in Gilbert Hill, Andheri West, and Behrambaug, Jogeshwari West.

Hitesh Jaiswal, another cheated investor, claimed that the arrested duo spoke in very polished English and had the body language befitting top business executives.


The police said the top management also provided a lot of perks to its employees. “They held parties for the staff at top hotels and themselves roamed around in a rented Rolls Royce car and had also hired bouncers,” Reddy said. The police suspect that the accused spent most of the investors’ money by April and were thus unable to pay them back. “Until now, the accused have returned Rs 5 crore to investors,” said Reddy.

Alchemist Infra Realty Ltd (AIRL) Rs 239-crore assets of TMC MP’s firm seized in Ponzi scheme probe: ED

Rs 239-crore assets of TMC MP’s firm seized in Ponzi scheme probe: ED
The properties belong to Alchemist Infra Realty Ltd (AIRL), which has been earlier prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for duping investors through the scheme.


The ED’s probe against KD Singh and the firm dates back to September 2016 when it filed a criminal case under the PMLA taking cognisance of a charge sheet filed against the company, its directors and others by SEBI.
Assets worth more than Rs 239 crore belonging to a firm owned by Trinamool Congress MP KD Singh have been attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the agency’s money laundering probe into an alleged Ponzi scheme run by the firm that allegedly swindled more than Rs 1,900 crore of investors’ money.


The properties belong to Alchemist Infra Realty Ltd (AIRL), which has been earlier prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for duping investors through the scheme. In a statement, the ED said it has issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for attaching properties “situated at various places like Chandigarh, Panchkula, Derabassi, SAS Nagar (Punjab), Shimla and also bank accounts in HDFC Bank against Ms Alchemist Infra Realty Ltd.”

The total value of the attached assets is Rs 239.29 crore, it said.

The agency had last year summoned the Rajya Sabha member, now sidelined in the TMC, as part of the probe. While Singh had resigned from the post of Chairman of the Alchemist group in 2012, his Rajya Sabha profile mentions him as the Chairman Emeritus and founder of the business group.

The ED’s probe against Singh and the firm dates back to September, 2016 when it filed a criminal case under the PMLA taking cognisance of a charge sheet filed against the company, its directors and others by SEBI.

“Investigation revealed that the proceeds of crime generated by AIRL were laundered through the web of companies. Investigations also revealed that the funds mobilised by the firm from various investors were never utilised for the purpose for which they were collected, and the same was transferred to bank accounts of other group companies, which were mainly paper companies, from where they were systematically siphoned off by the accused and used to purchase properties…” the ED said in a statement.


It has been alleged by the agencies that the firm launched an illegal collective investment scheme and mobilised Rs 1,916 crore in the years preceding 2015.

Beat the card skimmers at their own game

Criminals can capture your credit and debit card info with small devices called skimmers. If you’re careful, you can keep from being duped
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Advanced devices to steal your information are installed by criminals directly on to ATMs and credit card readers. These are called skimmers. If you’re careful, you can keep from falling prey to these devices.

What are skimmers?

Skimmers are malicious card readers attached to the real payment terminals so that they can harvest data from every person who swipes his card. The thief has to come back to the compromised machine to pick up the file containing all the stolen data. With that information, he can create cloned cards or break into bank accounts to steal money. Skimmers often don’t prevent the ATM or credit card reader from functioning properly, making them hard to detect. The threats are real and evolving, which is why it’s important to give ATMs or credit card readers a quick check before use.

Check for tampering

When you approach an ATM, check for some obvious signs of tampering. Quickly take a look at the ATM next to yours and compare them. If there are any obvious differences, don’t use either one. For example, if one ATM has a flashing card entry to show where you should insert the ATM card and the other ATM has a plain reader slot, you know something is wrong. Most skimmers are glued on top of the existing reader and will obscure the flashing indicator. If the keyboard doesn’t feel right — too thick or spongy — then there may be a PIN-snatching overlay, so don’t use it.

Wiggle everything

Even if you can’t see any visual differences, push at everything. ATMs are solidly constructed and generally don’t have any loose parts. See if the keyboard is securely attached and just one piece.

Think through your steps

Whenever you enter your card’s PIN, assume there is someone looking. Maybe it’s over your shoulder or through a hidden camera. Cover the keypad with your hand when you enter your PIN. That’s good policy even if you don’t notice anything odd about the ATM. Of course, that assumes the attacker is using a camera and not an overlay to obtain your PIN. Criminals frequently install skimmers on ATMs that aren’t located in busy locations since they don’t want to be observed installing malicious hardware or collecting the harvested data.

Stay aware

If you don’t notice a card skimmer and your card data does get stolen, take heart. As long as you report the theft to your card issuer or bank as soon as possible, you will not be held liable for the lost amount and your money will be returned.

Also, try to use a credit card whenever possible. Credit card transactions can be stopped and reversed at any time and doing so puts pressure on merchants to better secure their ATMs and pointof-sale terminals.

Chit fund scam: Chhattisgarh mulls plan for the return of investors’ money

RAIPUR: At a time when the West Bengal’s chit fund scam has triggered a political row, Chhattisgarh’s Congress government is considering setting up of special court, formulating a plan to ensure return of about Rs 1105 crore to investors, who were duped by unscrupulous chit fund companies during the previous BJP regime and to withdraw cases registered against chit fund agents. Briefing reporters after a meeting of the state cabinet presided over by chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, legislative affairs minister Ravindra Choubey said the cabinet has discussed the situation arising out of fly-by-night chit fund companies duping more than Rd 115 crore from about 2.70 lakh investors. He said Congress in its election manifesto has also promised to return investors’ money and to bring chit fund company directors to book. Pointing out that many local youths, who worked as agents of these chit fund companies, were arrested after the chit fund companies duped their investors, he said 286 such agents were arrested and charge-sheets were filed in 263 cases out of the total 424 cases registered. He said 199 cases have been registered against such chit fund companies.“The cabinet has discussed the issue of withdrawal of cases against agents and other aspects pertaining to the matter,” he said, adding, the government would announce on the floor of the Vidhan Sabha its decisions regarding the chit fund scam during the on-going budget session resuming on February eight. While in opposition, Congress had accused the BJP government of shielding these dubious chit fund firms pointing out that senior government functionaries, including ministers, had attended programmes organised by these chit fund companies through job fairs. Since the invitations for these programmes and job fairs were given on behalf of the then government and presence of ministers and bureaucrats at these functions gave an impression that the government had the partnership with these companies and accordingly people invested their money. Ahead of the November assembly polls, Congress had also released the list of chief guests along with invitation letters for job fairs of chit fund companies. Besides, Congress had also mentioned that some chit fund offices, which were sealed after complaints, were later re-opened on reports of tehsildars and station house offices (SHOs) of police—despite there was a ban imposed by SEBI and central government during the period between 2009 and 2014. In 2016, the issue of fraud by chit fund companies had echoed in the state assembly when the then opposition Congress had pointed out that chief minister and ministers had even inaugurated offices of chit fund companies had resulted in fraud of such intensity as people saw them and invested their hard earned money with these companies.x

Rs 18 crore MLM scam busted: 1,500 duped, 3 held

HYDERABAD: An inter-state multi-level marketing (MLM) scam was busted by Rachakonda police on Tuesday after arresting a 47-year-old businessman along with two of his associates for cheating more than 1,500 depositors from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra and collecting Rs 18 crore deposits last year. Five others, including the wife of main accused Jinna Kanthaiah alias Jinna Sreekanth, are still at large. Cops froze Rs 1 crore in savings accounts of Green Gold Biotech Company in Uppal.
Sreekanth, a resident of Peerzadiguda, has been running Green Gold without obtaining licences and permissions from the authorities concerned and offering unbelievable schemes to depositors with an intention to cheat them. “If someone purchases a machine of Rs 1 lakh, he gets 40 kg groundnut oil and 200 kg peanuts for extraction of groundnut oil. After extracting the oil, the firm pays Rs 10,000 towards allowance and Rs 5,000 for job work for a period of 24 months. Similarly, if someone purchases Rs 2 lakh worth machine, Sreekanth promises Rs 20,000 allowance and Rs 10,000 towards job work,” said Mahesh Bhagwat, commissioner of police.
Bhagwat said luring people under the guise of such schemes, Sreekanth, who was MD of the firm, induced agents and stock point holders to trap more customers into Green Gold MLM racket. “He expanded his business to AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra too,” said the CP. If an agent managed to enrol 50 customers, the team members were promised an incentive of Rs 25,000 per month for a period of 12 months and if the agent managed to enrol 200 customers, the team members were lured with Rs 50,000 a month.
During the preliminary investigation, cops have identified 1,385 customers in Rs 1 lakh scheme, 144 customers in Rs 2 lakh scheme, 19 customers under Rs 5 lakh and four customers in Rs 10 lakh scheme. “With the money, Sreekanth purchased a 3BHK flat at Peerzadiguda worth Rs 1 crore and a high-end car. He also gave away huge amounts of money to his associates and managed to stock raw material in the Uppal godown,” a cop said.

Apart from seizing Rs 21.2 lakh, cops recovered chequebooks, machines and raw materials from the godown all worth Rs 5 crore. Sreekanth was booked under criminal breach of trust and cheating case apart from relevant sections of Prize Chits And Money Circulation Schemes Act and Telangana Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishment Act. Police said the accused, who floated four fake companies between 2009 and 2011 and cheated depositors, have eight cases registered against him in various police stations in Telangana and AP.
Sanku Bhaskar Yadav, manager, and Lanka Priya, administrative officer, were arrested. A hunt is on to nab four associates and Sreekanth’s wife Ahalya.

D T Marketing company founder, Sanjay Dusane Nashik Fraud Company

Mumbai: Man booked for duping investors of Rs 1.25 crore

In his complaint to the police, Lade has alleged that the company gave a free gift to investors who invested Rs 8,500 and offered further incentives to those who would get others to invest.

The police said that when the company representatives allegedly made excuses in response to Lade’s telephonic inquiries, he visited their Nashik office. (Representational photo)

THE FOUNDER of a Nashik-based marketing company was booked last week for allegedly defrauding investors of Rs 1.25 crore. The company’s alleged illegal activities came to light when a Bhayander resident, along with others, approached the police on Saturday.

Complainant Nilesh Lade (40) came to know about the company, D T Marketing, from a friend last month. In his complaint to the police, Lade has alleged that the company gave a free gift to investors who invested Rs 8,500 and offered further incentives to those who would get others to invest. “For every new investor introduced, the company promised to pay Rs 1,000. My friend told me that the money invested would be circulated among investors and there wasn’t much work to be done apart from finding new investors,” Lade claimed.

In mid-January, Lade met the company founder, Sanjay Dusane, to learn more about its schemes. Following Dusane’s presentation, Lade claimed he was impressed enough to open two accounts, and invested Rs 8,500 in each. However, he began to grow suspicious when the free gift promised by the company did not arrive even after two weeks.

The police said that when the company representatives allegedly made excuses in response to Lade’s telephonic inquiries, he visited their Nashik office. “There, I met several other investors, who claimed to have been cheated by the company. Dusane was nowhere to be found,” Lade alleged in his complaint. These investors allegedly claimed that the best performing investors had been promised fully-paid foreign vacations and cars by the company, prompting them to pump in more money.

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Not assured by promises made by the company representatives that their money would be refunded, a group of investors, including Lade, on Saturday filed a complaint at Navghar police station. “We have registered a case and are investigating the claims made by the investors,” said Inspector Vilas Sanap of the Economic Offences Wing, Thane Rural Police.

ठाणे ग्रामीणच्या नवघर पोलिस ठाण्यात फसवणुकीचा गुन्हा

म. टा. वृत्तसेवा, ठाणे

कंपनीत ८ हजार ५०० रुपये गुंतवल्यास एक भेटवस्तू देण्यात येईल. नंतर कंपनीला सदस्य मिळवून दिल्यास प्रत्येक सदस्यामागे एक हजार रुपये मिळतील. अशाप्रकारे चांगला फायदा होण्याचे स्वप्न दाखवणाऱ्या नाशिकच्या डी. टी. मार्केटिंग या कंपनीने गुंतणूकदारांना सुमारे १ कोटी २५ लाखांचा गंडा घातला असल्याची बाब समोर आली आहे. मार्केटींगच्या नावाखाली या कंपनीने मिरा-भाईंदरसह राज्यात आणि राज्याबाहेरील गुंतवणूकदारांची फसवणूक केल्याचे शंका व्यक्त करण्यात आली आहे. याप्रकरणी ठाणे ग्रामीणच्या नवघर पोलिस ठाण्यात फसवणुकीचा गुन्हा दाखल करण्यात आला असून आर्थिक गुन्हे शाखेकडे या गुन्ह्याची चौकशी देण्यात आली आहे.

भाईंदर पूर्व येथील निलेश लाडे (४०) यांची फसवणूक झालेली असून मित्राकडून त्यांना डी. टी. मार्केटींग कंपनीविषयी माहिती समजली होती. कमी गुंतवणुकीच्या रकमेवर चांगला फायदा होईल. या कंपनीचे कामकाज साखळी पद्धतीने चालत असून कंपनीला सदस्य बनवून पैसे कमवायचे, असे मित्राने सांगितले. त्यामुळे लाडे यांनी कंपनीत पैशांची गुंतवणूक करण्याचा निर्णय घेतला. फोनद्वारे कंपनीत संपर्कही साधला होता. ५ जानेवारी रोजी कंपनीकडून संजय दुसाने हा व्यक्ती कंपनीच्या योजनेबत माहिती देण्यासाठी भाईंदरला आला. यावेळी त्याच्यासोबत ५ ते ६ जण होते. दुसाने याने कंपनीचे मुख्य कार्यालय नाशिकमध्ये आहे. राज्यात आणि राज्याबाहेरही कंपनी मार्केटिंगचे काम करत असून कंपनीत गुंतवणूक केल्यास आणि सदस्य बनवल्यास लाखो रुपयांचा फायदा होण्याचे आमिष दाखवले. कंपनीत ८ हजार ५०० रुपयांची गुंतवणूक करून वस्तू विकत घ्यावी लागेल. नंतर तुम्ही कंपनीला सदस्य मिळवून दिल्यास प्रत्येक सदस्यामागे एक हजार रुपये मिळतील, असेही दुसाने यांनी आमिष दाखवले होते.

कंपनीच्या स्कीमवर लाडे यांचा विश्वास बसल्याने कंपनीत एकूण १७ हजारांची गुंतवणूक केली होती. मात्र त्यांच्यासह भाईंदरमधील इतरही गुंतवणूकदारांना भेटवस्तू मिळालीच नाही. याबाबत कंपनीत विचारणा करूनही कंपनीकडून टाळाटाळ केली जात होती. लाडे यांनी मित्रासह कंपनीचे नाशिकमधील मुख्य कार्यालय गाठले. त्याठिकाणी इतरही बरेच रहिवासी गोळा झाले होते. डी. टी. मार्केटींग कंपनीने लाड यांच्यासह इतरही अनेक जणांना फसवले असल्याचे निदर्शनास आल्यानंतर लाडे यांनी त्यांच्यासह इतर गुंतवणूकदारांची फसवणूक केल्याप्रकरणी ठाणे ग्रामीणच्या आर्थिक गुन्हे शाखेकडे धाव घेत दुसाने याच्याविरुद्ध फसवणुकीची तक्रार दाखल केली.