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Banning cryptos is the most advisable choice: RBI deputy governorMore substantially, he added, cryptocurrencies can wreck the currency system, monetary authority, banking system, and in general the govern...
Cryptocurrencies worse than Ponzi schemes, says RBI Deputy GovernorSankar also said that since cryptocurrencies have specifically been developed to bypass the regulated financial system, it is reason enough...
Financial frauds: The new avatar of Ponzi schemes is herePerpetrators of financially dodgy schemes work hard at their image. When a victim has doubts his first reaction would be that so many peopl...
Bitcoin surge, ICOs raise regulatory hackles on e-ponzi fearsRBI and Sebi will soon get into a huddle to prepare a framework to protect gullible investors.
'Like' scam: Noida man dupes 6 lakh people of Rs 3,700 croreThe scam surfaced with the arrest of Mittal and his two aides — 40-year-old Shridhar Prasad, an MBA, and 25-year-old Mahesh Dayal, who serv...
Six people convicted of white-collar crimes apart from Rajat GuptaRajat Gupta, the high-profile former chief of McKinsey, became a free man again on March 11 after a two-year prison sentence in the US in a...
New SOP for agencies probing ponzi schemes in the offingThe move comes following instances in which investors have been duped of their hard earned money through ponzi schemes.
Saradha probe suggests Rs 2,500 crore-scam just tip of icebergMost of these firms have been found to be 'inoperational' and were utilised for the sole purpose of multi-routing of funds to hide the mone...
Government to study global practices to check ponzi menaceThe DFS has earlier circulated draft amendments PCMCSB Act, 1978, to various law and enforcement agencies for their views.
Govt mulls central oversight agency to check ponzi menaceThe CEIB has also suggested empowering the proposed agency to take up for investigation those cases that may have taken place in different ...
Indian brain behind major UK scam jailedNamed after Italian fraudster Charles Ponzi, a 'Ponzi' scam involves payment of purported high returns to existing investors from funds con...
- Scams 2010: Small names, large on size
For scams, whose total size runs into 13-digit numbers, the names they are known by are short - 2G, CWG and IPL.
Giving back is greatIn 1857, the year that Indian war of independence was fought, Charles Dickens published Little Dorrit. The central theme of his novel was i...
- Trio led by Indian held in 80 million pound scam in UK
An NRI businessman and two of his British accomplices have been arrested here on charges of duping over 600 people, including celebrities l...
- Indian Madoffs benefit from regulatory vacuum
As many of these Ponzi schemes do not technically take public deposits, they escape the stringent guidelines of the RBI. World's top tax ha...
- International alliance to defend Madoff victims
Some 5,000 lawyers have formed an international alliance to defend victims of the alleged scam perpetrated by Wall Street investment broker...
- Wall Street fraudster Madoff under house arrest
Bernard Madoff, the high-flying Wall Street investor charged with a $50-billion fraud, has been placed under house arrest.