Rs 100 cr cheating case: 8 persons including son of former MLA held
Accused misused room of BSY for their business?
Bengaluru, February 13: The Central Zone police arrested eight persons including a son of former MLA on charge of cheating people by duping them to believe that they will get Rs 100 crore for cashew nut business here. Interestingly, police sources said that the accused had misused the office of Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha for their business.
The arrested have been identified as P Karthikeyan (60), son of former MLA Palaniyappa from Shivajinagar constituency in 1950, Manikantha Vasan (25), Suman (27), Abhilash (27), Karthik, Prabhu, Johnmoon and Sagavaroop and all of them hailed from Tamil Nadu, said DCP D Devaraj.
About incident
A person called Ramesh approached a lady Ilamadi to get Rs 100 crore loan for his cashew nut business. Later, she along with Ramesh, Sundaram Selvam, Ajay and her father KK Shetty promised him of getting loan at minimum interest rate. They held discussion at the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha on January 2 and asked him to pay 1.12 per cent amount on loan amount as stamp charge. Later, they got five stamp papers of Rs 100 face value, and five stamp papers of Rs 20 face value from him and got his signature on them. After some time, they managed to get five cheques and six photos along with Rs 1.12 crore from him and escaped to Tamil Nadu. Against this, a case was filed at Cubbon Park police station, Devaraj said.
Now the police who arrested the accused recovered Rs 40 lakh from them and handed it over to Ramesh and remaining Rs 72 lakh has to be recovered from the accused, investigation officers said.
BSY office misused?
It is said that in order to cheat a person, the accused have misused the office of former chief minister and Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha. On the day of their dealing, P Karthikeyan and others who entered the Vidhana Soudha, sat in an empty room in ministers get up. Moreover, they also introduced themselves with the Vidhana Soudha staff, revealed the investigation.
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21 hours raid fetch nothing for ED, claims Karnataka Cong MLA’s son
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris' son Mohammed Haris Nalapad on Tuesday claimed that the 21 hours of search by the ED in his house and other locations did not fetch anything.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided the premises of the two sons of Haris (Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad), Aqeeb Khan, grandson of ex-Union cabinet minister K Rahman Khan and an alleged crypto hacker named Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in a crypto currency-linked money laundering case.
More than a dozen premises in the city have been covered as part of the action executed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
"My grandfather is 89-year-old. There is not a single bad mark. My father (N A Haris) is a four-time MLA. There is not a single accusation against him. Their only intention was to target myself and my brother. As simple as that," Mohammed Nalapad, who is a former Karnataka Youth Congress president, told reporters.
According to him, the ED officials carried out raids for 21 hours.
"After 21 hours of search, they took away only two mobile phones from our house. They did not get a single paisa. The ED will testify it," the Congress leader said.
Exuding faith in the law, he said he is ready to fight the case in court.
"Me and my father have opted for politics and we are in public life. You can call me whatever you want but I have not done anything wrong," Mohammed Nalapad said.
Regarding his relationship with Sriki, he said he knew him but had no clue what he was doing.
"I have never said that either me or my brother do not know Sriki. But how will I know what he does in his house? Can his crimes be linked to us," he asked.
The money laundering case stems from some Karnataka Police FIRs and chargesheets filed in a 2017 case of hacking of national and international websites, stealing of bitcoins and sale of these 'stolen' virtual digital assets (VDA) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
The Nalapad brothers and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be the beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this alleged crypto-linked crime, the ED said.
