A crook among us
The investigation of Ambindent Marketing Pvt Ltd which has committed a fraud of hundreds of crores, the mask of many so called ‘prestigious’ persons is coming off. The enormity of this crime is unravelling with the arrest of BJP supporter and former minister who was also a BJP insider, Janardhan Reddy. National leaders of BJP are trying hard to disassociate themselves from Reddy as much as possible. Ambident is not a crime committed by a single person. This is an operation that has a massive team work behind it.
There is a cheat even among those who cheat on others. The same mindset that prompts them to cheat people, makes one fall for such trap as well. This has been proved beyond doubt in Ambident case. We cannot simply hold the kingpin of the chain responsible and wash our hands off the rest of the case or even by just blaming Reddy for the whole mess. Names of media persons are also being heard in connection with this case. Apart from giving ‘breaking news’ or ‘investigation report’ TV channels have also served much more than their share of news to the people.
Some television channels have been known to blackmail a few influential and rich people, a few gullible ones too, to extract money from them. Ambident incident has unmasked this criminal side of the channels who preach honesty to the world but are involved in dark businesses themselves. The Ambident case is trying to project those who recklessly invested black money earned through real estate transactions into this company, as victims of the fraud. There is a culprit in them, who wants to earn easy money. Aren’t we forgetting that? All these people would hesitate a lot if they were asked to invest into factories or businesses run by the most hardworking farmers of this country. They’d never use their money to bail out anyone in trouble. This very selfishness of wanting to earn easy money has got them trapped.
The investors are not some normal innocent persons. There are officers and many others who enjoy great respect in the society. This company has used their greed to make money for its investors. Along with this, the brains behind the company also know the greed in the media. Company and its people like Reddy need goodwill of people across the spectrum to protect them in case they get caught. That there are politicians behind this is beyond doubt. Moreover, how would Reddy get Rs 20 crore? How can he operate without the ‘safety’ assured by his political bosses sitting in Delhi who assured Reddy to give a word on protecting the men behind the company?
Political parties which used the money supplied by Reddy are party to Ambident without a doubt. Not just that, even voters who took the money from Reddy to cast votes in favour of his candidate are also beneficiaries of this scam. So before blaming someone for this, we need to see how big this chain of social liability gets. There is not much of a difference between Reddy and TV channels heads who were part of this fraud network. Those blackmailers in the guise of media persons are more dangerous than Reddy because they are not identified as criminals yet. Though they preach all nobility to people, deep inside they’d be hand in glove with the criminals. When the issue of their morality raises, one would wonder how dark their souls are to even speak about this. Finally, the benefit of Ponzi schemes such as Ambident are shared by both Reddy types and the media types. If the latter category is party to this, they should be arrested immediately.
If they are let off, number of people who assume they can loot people and run away with money and enjoy media protection, will increase manifold. Hundreds of companies come up everyday with money-doubling Ponzi schemes. Even police officers have invested in this and have silently suffered when the money was all gone. Easy methods to make money always land people in trouble some day or the other. People invest in them without even thinking and then cry victims when the fly-by-night companies disappear into thin air with their money. Instead of investing into such fake companies and losing money, people should come together to make co-operatives and invest into businesses that aid better socio-economic growth. That way their returns are assured and even society benefits at large.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
