PANJIM: A Mumbai-based investment company, operating in the name of Forex Entertainment, has allegedly duped the Goan investors to the tune of Rs 30 lakh, informed the police inspector, Mr Ramesh Gaonkar. Speaking to this daily, Mr Gaonkar stated that in this regard, a victim investor, Mr Dinesh S, from Ponda, has lodged a complaint with the economic offences cell.
The police inspector informed that Mr Dinesh, in his complaint, has stated that after reading an advertisement in a local daily, wherein the investment company proprietor had published his contact mobile number, he called on that mobile, and was asked to meet Mr Prem Goyal from Mumbai at Café Coffee Day in Porvorim. So, he asked his friend Mr Oswald Soares to meet Mr Goyal and Mr Goyal introduced himself as the proprietor of the Forex Entertainment and then explained to him about the investment schemes.
Mr Goyal asked Mr Soares to invest money in the company through another person called Mr Manoj also from Mumbai and told him that Mr Manoj would invest in foreign exchange trading and would pay 3 per cent daily on his investments and from there on will pay 2 per cent daily to the investors for a period of 1 year in November 2010, the complainant has stated, Mr Gaonkar added.
The complainant thinking that he would get 3 times more than the invested money, invested Rs 50,000 and thereafter Rs 1 lakh and out of this Rs 1.50, lakh, he received only Rs 45,000, the police informed.
Till December 8, 2010 the amount was being transferred on a daily basis to the account, but from December 9, 2010 the investors were informed that due restrictions from the Reserve Bank of India, money would be paid on a weekly basis and payment on daily basis was stopped, mentions the complaint adding since then there is neither any communication from the company and the contact mobile has been found to be switched off.
Around 100 investors have written to the police and the police have registered the case stating that the proprietor of the finance company dishonestly induced the investors to invest in the scheme and misappropriated investors’ fund. A team from economic offences cell has left for Mumbai to investigate into the case further. (NT)
How foolish and guillible are Goans?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, I remember an educated old man telling my father how naive and gullible the Goans are. He said: "If I was from Punjab, then I would have bought all the Goans and sold them there for a price."
He said this because our Goans trust non-Goan ghanttis blindly. If our Goan tell them something, they put him/her down by saying :"Ho pisso re, ho kitem sangta? Amkam sindde liata!" But if a non-Goan ghantti sells them even lies, the same people will say, that guy/gal is a genius.