Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Scam around the corner ; Disturbing instances come to light of companies raising deposits claiming approval from one regulator or the other.

The loans scam grabbed eyeballs in late November as the CentralBureau of Investigation arrested officers of banks and housingfinance companies. But, a deposits scam brewing alongside does notseem to have received as much attention even though the amount ofmoney raised is on a much larger scale and from easily-luredsections of the investing public.

On November 24, the Securities and Exchange Board of India orSEBI, barred Sahara Pariwar chief Subroto Roy and two companies fromthe Sahara stable - Sahara India Real Estate Corp. and SaharaHousing Investment Corp. - from raising money from the public. Thetwo companies had raised several thousand crores through …

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