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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invested his money in Stock Guru in the hope of getting a good return on his money.

The beginning

Ulhas Khaire may have struck it big in Delhi but he first tried his hand at cheating in his hometown, Nagpur. At 23, Khaire, who hadn’t even completed his graduation then, floated a company called PVK Group of Companies, promising financial schemes, including home loans, to investors. His first victim was Major Chandramohan Prataprai Virmani, who gave him a cheque for Rs 10 lakh as mortgage against a loan Khaire’s company promised him but which never materialised. Virmani later lodged a complaint of cheating.

At the Khaires’s rented family home in Chandan Nagar in Nagpur, there is no one around. Ulhas’s family—brother Vinod, mother Kamal and sister Veena—who believed he was dead, are in hiding. Ulhas’s grandfather Vitthal Khaire had retired as a deputy collector in Nagpur and father Prabhakar owned a liquor shop which shut after his death.

Landlord Prashant Paliwal says, “She (Kamal, Ulhas’s mother) has been staying here for the past two years. She left the house before Diwali. The police had come for an inquiry a few months ago. We were away that time but Kamal told us they had come to inquire about her son. She admitted he had become a big criminal, but also said he was insulted by someone when he was young and that he took to crime because of that incident.”

According to reports, Kamal is in Delhi to take custody of Ulhas and

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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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