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Saturday 4 February 2017

Photo: India Central Bureau of Investigation arrests MD of ponzi firm who has been hiding in Nigeria for 3 years

Tightening its screw on the multi-crore ponzi scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's premier law enforcement agency for the investigation of corruption cases, on Friday, February 3, arrested Mir Sahiruddin, managing director of Green Ray International Limited (GRIL) who was on the run for nearly three years.
A native of Balasore district, Sahiruddin was hiding with his family in Nigeria. He had entered India on Bangladesh passport by impersonating him as Ahmed Hussain and was arrested from Kolkata.

Confirming his arrest, a CBI official from New Delhi said Sahiruddin of Sasanbad village under Jaleswar police limits had returned from Nigeria a few days back.
"Earlier a look out circular was issued against him and other directors of the company. He will be brought to Bhubaneswar on Saturday," he said.
GRIL is accused of duping nearly Rs 2,000 crore from poor and unsuspecting investors of Odisha and 13 other states on the pretext of providing them astronomical returns in a short span of time.
On September 28, 2015, CBI sleuths had raided different branch offices of the ponzi firm.

The raids were conducted at 13 places in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Keonjhar, Khurda and Nayagarh districts. Corporate office and houses of the company officials at Jaleswar and relative’s house at Tarpur in Jajpur were also raided simultaneously.

The national probing agency had seized documents related to the chit-fund scam and schemes floated by the company, which has foreign connections and alleged links with anti-national forces.

Sources said, Bhubaneswar CBI SP Rajiv Ranjan had been tracking Sahiruddin since long. Altogether 13 cases were registered against the company authorities under various sections of IPC and Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act 1978 in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Ganjam, Sonepur and Khurda districts in 2013. Chhattisgarh police also had registered five cases and arrested one director Ayub Saha and one branch manager. Sources said GRIL which dealt in gold and silver trading possessed nearly 20.68 acres of land in Balasore district that had been confiscated by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch.

The company had a deposit of Rs 57,41,541 in 46 accounts, which was frozen while the EOW had seized Rs 9,55,745 in cash, 246 gram gold coins worth Rs 4,15,751 and 9.5 kg silver coins worth Rs 6,66,200.

Apart from the 41 branches in the State, GRIL had 67 more branches in Maharashtra, Goa, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat besides its international branch in Bar Dubai. Earlier, Sahiruddin was arrested by State Security Service (SSS), the primary domestic intelligence agency of Nigeria on July 15, 2015 on the grounds of suspected money laundering. Later, he managed to obtain bail.

The accused was hiding at Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, with family to hoodwink the CBI. He was also allegedly involved in gold trading. Investigations revealed that his company had transferred crores of rupees from India to Dubai and then Nigeria through hawala brokers.


Source: The New India Express

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Criminal.. they should deal with him squarely...

BONARIO NNAGS said...

He was running an enterprise similar to MMM.
Serves him right.


. ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmmmmm

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Smart dude


...merited happiness

Anonymous said...

Our people no go hear say all this quick money provide help get help are all fake. It's like robbing Paul to pay peter. Since the return of mmm has it paid people, the answer is no.where it get such money unless some other people provide help to pay the ones who gave help. Ponzi is scam. The money is not bn invested in sthn positive to yield such gain. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

CELEB said...

Why must it be Nigeria eh?

Unknown said...

hahaha
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Anonymous said...

Can all Indians Lebanese and south Africans pls leave nigeria so we can know the rest of us left

Silent Observer said...

Many keep springing up in Nigeria,gullible,lazy and greedy people keep failing for it. Make una continue rubbish

Unknown said...

Because you are the most corrupt country in Africa sub region

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