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Ponzi scheme: fraud amounting to 3 billion to 1 million people, two regional directors arrested

STF has arrested two regional directors of Solmax, a foreign company, who have cheated three billion people from around 10 lakh people in the country by running Ponzi scheme in Lucknow on Friday. These people cheated people by showing fake company and fake registration in the name of education package. Like Speak Asia, the old member was commissioned to create a new member. Just like this company had deposited crores of rupees from about 20 thousand people in UP. This was revealed when the STF was put under investigation when a case was filed at the Ghazipur police station.

According to STF ADG Amitabh Yash, those arrested are Gomtinagar, Saraswati Apartment resident Anirudh Narayan and Gomti Nagar Extension resident Deepak Rai. 13 fake documents of Solmax company, three mobile phones, 10 ATMs have been recovered from them. STF came to know that a multilevel marketing company is doing its business in India through Igniter 100 and Solmax Group website. While this company is not registered in its country. It came to light that Abdul Rahman Sandhu, a resident of Pakistan, and his associates have registered this company in Britain but are running a Ponzi scheme in India by not doing business there.




The person sitting in Dubai was doing the transaction

STF said that Rakesh Saini, who hails from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, is based in Dubai and is running the Ponzi scheme in India through the zoom app. The arrested regional director went to Dubai to meet him. He promised to pay a lot of money to both of them. Only after this, these people started cheating by starting online work from their homes in Lucknow.

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Funds deposited in foreign accounts

Arrested Anirudh told that they used to sell education packages online. For this, about 20 thousand people became members in UP. They were charged from 25 pounds to five thousand pounds as membership fees. In Indian currency, this amount was taken from 25 hundred rupees to five lakh rupees. These funds were deposited in foreign accounts. So far, an amount of Rs five crore has been deposited in foreign accounts.

 

Parvesh Maurya
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