Guru Con, who cheated investors

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SushantKulkarni, Sanjay Singh, V Shoba, Vivek Deshpande , Prawesh Lama:  Nov 18 2012, 01:48 IST
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Ulhas and Raksha Khaire, who cheated investors of about Rs 500 crore, left a trail of fraud and deception across the country, living it up and buying assets worth crores

A three-storey glass building with a garden balcony and a terrace restaurant, tucked inside a lane choking with showrooms for luxury cars, plush offices and posh banquet halls—Ulhas and his wife Raksha Khaire could not have chosen a better place to dupe people into believing that they were here to make people rich. It was the perfect place for the con couple to float their rogue company, Stock Guru India, in early 2011.

Employees working in adjoining buildings at Moti Nagar in West Delhi still remember the time when thousands would line up to invest their money in the company in the hope of getting big returns. A few months later, the queue gave way to protests by the same people demanding their money back. Earlier this year, men from the income tax department sealed the main gate and declared the couple absconding.

Ulhas, 33 and Raksha, 30, who lured at least 2.5 lakh people into investing their money in their company and fled with around Rs 500 crore, were arrested from Ratnagiri in Maharashtra last week and brought to Delhi. While Ulhas is in police custody, Raksha was sent to Tihar jail on Friday.

Before their arrest, the couple had a successful run for many years. They would promise investors an interest of 20 per cent, pay them in the initial few

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vaman | 18-Nov-2012Reply | Forward
What was SEBI doing when the Stockguru promoters were accepting deposits from investors with promise of unheard of returns? SEBI went to court against Sahara and the SC ordered Sahara to pay back the investors their capital and 18% interest when no investor specifically complained against Sahara. There are investment companies, registered with SEBI which regularly promise high returns and get away with cheating their customers. There is hardly any quick relief to customers who are misled by such promises. I read in the Forbes magazine about one Ram Prasad of Chehnnai being persuaded by a smooth-talking rep of Aditya Birla Money to invest in a scheme called `Short Strangle' with a promise of 2% monthly return. He transferred shares worth more than Rs.2 crores as collateral for trading by Aditya Birla Money. After two months, he was told that he should pay Rs.39 lakhs to get back his shares because he had lost that much amount in the trades done by the trader! I recommend every retail investor to read that story that appeared in 2010 (just type aditya birla money forbes in google search and you will get that report). It is all right to criticize unlicensed fraudsters but what about those who are licensed by the government and its regulators?

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