Bengaluru, Feb 20: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against Ambidant Marketing and nine others, including former BJP minister G Janardhana Reddy, accusing them of cheating people of Rs 120 crore.
The 4,800-page chargesheet, filed before the city civil court, says the number of people cheated is 10,564. Police have registered the names and collected details of 4,800 investors whose investments ran up to Rs 82.1 crore.
The CCB named Janardhana Reddy, Ambidant Marketing directors Syed Fareed Ahmed and Syed Afaq Ahmed, businessman Vijay Tata, Reddy’s aide K Mehfuz Ali Khan, gold merchant Ramesh alias Ballari Ramesh, company executives Inayat Ullah Wahab and Ashraf Ali in the chargesheet.
The CCB said it has asked the district administration to attach properties of the accused which is worth Rs 59 crore. This includes Reddy’s Rs 5 crore flat in Parijatha Apartment on Race Course Road, Bengaluru.
The attachment has been sought under the Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments (KPID) Act.
Police said they have been able to trace documents of immovable properties of the accused and sought their attachment. The properties include flats and agricultural land. They have frozen 37 bank accounts of the accused and seized Rs 3.5 crore and deposited it with the court.
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