Bengaluru: News website claims tracking down fugitive Morgenall CEO Irfan Pasha, his wife in Qatar
Bengaluru: Eight months after a Bengaluru based couple and founders of Morgenall Investment Company, Irfan Pasha and his wife Fathima Maqdooma fled the country allegedly defrauding thousands of investors, Bengaluru based news website has made claims of tracking the fugitive couple in Qatar where they reportedly run a job recruitment company named Credentia HR.
The couple who defrauded investors (mainly Muslims) off thousands of crore rupees in the name of ‘Halal Investment’ wounded their business in late September 2018 and fled the country, leaving the investigating agencies and investors in a fix as they failed to track them.
Bengaluru based journalist Shaik Zakeer Hussain who runs a news website 'thecognate.com' reported that working on an information provided by their source about Irfan and his wife staying in Qatar they investigated the lead and has concluded it to be true.
“Ten days ago, The Cognate received a message from one of the employees of Credentia HR, informing us that both Irfan and Fathima are in Qatar. The employee told us that the duo runs a company there and are recruiting people on visit visas, without paying them salaries. Since it’s illegal to work in Qatar on a visit visa, the employees are unable to lodge a complaint against the company” a report published on thecognate.com on June 24 added.
The report also claims that their investigation led them to the office of Credentia HR and that they were able to verify the details of the company and its ownership to satisfactorily conclude that the duo was in Qatar, running Credentia HR.
“At our request, the employee sent us a copy of the offer letter from Credentia HR, which had Irfan Pasha’s signature and the company’s commercial registration number or C.R. No. on it.
While we were able to match Irfan’s signature with the signature on his passport copy, but we wanted more information to ascertain Irfan’s ownership of the firm. However, the employee was unable to provide any more details” the report adds.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati, Shaikh Zakir Hussain said “We sent our representatives to the office of Credentia HR on Najma Airport Road in Doha but the couple were not at office at that time. Our representatives couldn’t take pictures of the office too. Later we got access to the official trade license’s copy of Credentia HR where the name of the duo was mentioned as the owners along with another ‘Yes mart trading and service’, we couldn’t verify the identity details of ‘Yes mart trading and services’”.
According to the copy of trade license provided in the report, Irfan holds 25% shares of Credentia HR, while his wife Fathima hold 24% of company’s shares.
The document also shows the passport numbers of the duo. The passport number of Fathima is G8573215 and the passport number of Irfan Pasha is L7213058.
“We tried to match these passport numbers with the copy of Irfan Pasha’s passport number, which was circulated widely by Morgenall’s investors on social media, soon after he fled, but to our surprise, it did not match up. However, a little more research revealed us that Irfan holds another passport, whose number matches with the one on his company certificate. This reveals that Irfan Pasha has two passports, one which he used to fly out of India, and was issued in Bengaluru in 2017, and another one, which he used to register his company in Qatar and was issued in Dubai in 2014” the report further added.
As soon as the report was published on The Cognate website, investors and activists have called on the investigating agencies to should immediately take measures to get arrest the couple, who the report claims to be living a ‘luxurious life’.
In November last year, we even met the then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Delhi and sought the centre’s help in finding these fraudsters, but nothing came out of it. Now that their location has been confirmed, the government and the investigating agencies have no choice, but to get these people to India, and get us justice. These people are living openly and with absolute impunity, while we are suffering everyday” the report quoted Syed Saif, an investor turned activist.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
