Mumbai Fraud Businessman

A garment unit owner has been arrested after a 73-year-old businessman from Mumbai fell prey to an online investment fraud and ended up losing Rs 3.61 crore, police said on Wednesday.

A businessman from suburban Kandivali in Mumbai has allegedly lost over Rs 32 lakh in an online fraud, police said on Friday.

A businessman has been arrested by Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly evading taxes worth Rs 24.55 crore by fraudulently issuing invoices without actual supply of goods, an official said this morning.

The Income Tax Department has invoked a rarely used power and arrested a Karnataka-based businessman for alleged tax default of about Rs 12 crore, a senior official said on Tuesday.

A suspected case of SIM card swapping has led to a Mumbai-based textile businessman losing Rs 1.86 crore from his bank account. A case has been registered with the cybercrime wing of the Mumbai Police.

In a SIM card swap fraud case, a city-based textile merchant lost at least Rs 1.86 crore, which was illegally transferred from his account by unidentified persons to various bank accounts across the country, police said Wednesday.

Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in a Rs 13,000 crore bank fraud, may return to India in three months "if his condition gets better", his lawyer said. The lawyer told a Mumbai court on Saturday that Mehul Choksi is not in a position to record his statement, news agency ANI reported. The 59-year-old had claimed he left India in January for ...

The passport office at Mumbai had issued a passport valid for 10 years to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi in 2015 without a police verification report, Mumbai police said on Saturday without elaborating why he was exempted.

The government has cancelled passports of celebrity diamond designer Nirav Modi and uncle Mehul Choksi who accused of a staggering bank fraud. The orders to revoke the passports were issued by the Foreign Ministry amid a massive crackdown on companies linked to the billionaire businessman by half-a-dozen central agencies investigating Nirav Modi an...

There's no end to Punjab National Bank's (PNB) deception. Even as probes by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the Rs 11,400-crore Nirav Modi scam are underway, Mumbai Police has initiated an inquiry against the bank's Santacruz branch, which allegedly sanctioned a housing loan of Rs 3 crore on the s...

A 55-year-old businessman from Thane approached a financial institution to seek loan for buying a new car, and was shocked to learn that he was on a defaulters' list, for not repaying Rs 15 lakh for two cars purchased earlier. Dashrath Sable, who owns a travel business, found the two cars had been bought with his documents and even his signature ha...

One accused was arrested Saturday and a hunt launched for 11 others in connection with a Rs.1 crore illegal transfer from a businessman's bank account here, police said.

A garment unit owner has been arrested after a 73-year-old businessman from Mumbai fell prey to an online investment fraud and ended up losing Rs 3.61 crore, police said on Wednesday.

A businessman from suburban Kandivali in Mumbai has allegedly lost over Rs 32 lakh in an online fraud, police said on Friday.

A businessman has been arrested by Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly evading taxes worth Rs 24.55 crore by fraudulently issuing invoices without actual supply of goods, an official said this morning.

The Income Tax Department has invoked a rarely used power and arrested a Karnataka-based businessman for alleged tax default of about Rs 12 crore, a senior official said on Tuesday.

A suspected case of SIM card swapping has led to a Mumbai-based textile businessman losing Rs 1.86 crore from his bank account. A case has been registered with the cybercrime wing of the Mumbai Police.

In a SIM card swap fraud case, a city-based textile merchant lost at least Rs 1.86 crore, which was illegally transferred from his account by unidentified persons to various bank accounts across the country, police said Wednesday.

Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in a Rs 13,000 crore bank fraud, may return to India in three months "if his condition gets better", his lawyer said. The lawyer told a Mumbai court on Saturday that Mehul Choksi is not in a position to record his statement, news agency ANI reported. The 59-year-old had claimed he left India in January for ...

The passport office at Mumbai had issued a passport valid for 10 years to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi in 2015 without a police verification report, Mumbai police said on Saturday without elaborating why he was exempted.

The government has cancelled passports of celebrity diamond designer Nirav Modi and uncle Mehul Choksi who accused of a staggering bank fraud. The orders to revoke the passports were issued by the Foreign Ministry amid a massive crackdown on companies linked to the billionaire businessman by half-a-dozen central agencies investigating Nirav Modi an...

There's no end to Punjab National Bank's (PNB) deception. Even as probes by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the Rs 11,400-crore Nirav Modi scam are underway, Mumbai Police has initiated an inquiry against the bank's Santacruz branch, which allegedly sanctioned a housing loan of Rs 3 crore on the s...

A 55-year-old businessman from Thane approached a financial institution to seek loan for buying a new car, and was shocked to learn that he was on a defaulters' list, for not repaying Rs 15 lakh for two cars purchased earlier. Dashrath Sable, who owns a travel business, found the two cars had been bought with his documents and even his signature ha...

One accused was arrested Saturday and a hunt launched for 11 others in connection with a Rs.1 crore illegal transfer from a businessman's bank account here, police said.