Scams

Gauhati HC grants bail to Rakesh Paul, prime accused in cash for jobs scam

Former chairman of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) Rakesh Paul, prime accused in the cash for jobs scam, has been granted bail by the Gauhati High Court. The single bench of Justice Devashis Baruah granted bail to Paul on Friday in connection with a case registered at the Bhangagarh police station here related to taking bribe for giving jobs for the post of agricultural development officer. The bail was granted on the ground that he had already served one-half of the maximum period of imprisonment for the offence. Justice Barua directed Paul's release subject to certain conditions which include surrendering his passport, not to leave Guwahati without prior intimation and permission of the Special Judge, Assam and not to tamper with the evidence of the case. He has also been directed not to contact the charge sheeted witnesses, not to directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any of the witnesses. The judge also directed him to appear before the Specia

Nithyananda's 'Kailasa' cons 30 US cities with "sister city" scam: Report

Self-proclaimed godman and fugitive Nithyananda's United States of Kailasa has signed a cultural partnership with over 30 American cities, a media report has said, days after the city of Newark in the US state of New Jersey said it rescinded a sister-city agreement with the fictional country. The sister-city agreement between Newark and the fake United States of Kailasa was inked on January 12 this year and the signing ceremony took place at City Hall in Newark. Nityananda, whose mind-bending spiritual homilies wrapped in a sheen of pseudo-science has provided much mirth on social media, claims to have set up a country called the "United States of Kailasa" in 2019. According to its website, there are over 30 American cities that have signed a cultural partnership with the fake nation of Kailasa --- cities from Richmond, Virginia to Dayton, Ohio, to Buena Park, Florida literally all over the map, according to a Fox news report on Thursday. The report said that we are finding out the

Irregularities found in 13 educational institutes under CBI radar: Sources

Grave irregularities have been found in 13 out of 22 educational institutions which are on the radar of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Rs 250-crore scholarship scam, agency sources said. Investigations revealed that these 13 institutions took scholarships in the name of about 2,000 fictitious students, sources in the CBI said. The accounts and other documentation of the remaining institutions are yet to be checked, they added. Scrutiny of documents, accounts and data procured from computers and other related material of these institutions located in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh by the CBI revealed that scholarship fund was siphoned and scholarship was taken in the name of students who either did not exist or had left the institutions, sources added. These institutions bagged a major chunk of the scholarship amount. The scam started in 2012-13 when the scholarship for pre-matric and post-matric students belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled .

Delhi Jal Board joint director arrested in Rs 20 crores water bill scam

As per the allegations, Naresh Singh was receiving bribes worth lakhs of rupees from the bitevtors of Aurrum and Fresh Pay

Phishing attacks made ordinary folk poorer by Rs 1,500 cr in 2020-22

These types of cyber attacks are called phishing/smishing attacks, and not only the SBI, but every other banking, financial and other application customers can fall prey to it

From sextortion to OLX scams, Mewat is way ahead of Jamtara in cyber crimes

Catching one scammer doesn't end the problem as 10 others pop up and they are even trained in the Mewat villages by the akkas

Spike in frauds cost insurers $6 billion annually, says Deloitte survey

These frauds cost insurers about $6 billion annually, and they lose about 10 per cent of their overall premium collection to frauds

WBSSC to soon terminate 800 illegaly appointed teachers from service

The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) will soon terminate 800 illegally-appointed teachers at the secondary level in different state-run schools from service.

Inefficient teachers were always there: Abhijit Banerjee on teacher's scam

West Bengal Nobel Laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee said it is not a new phenomenon that inefficient teachers have penetrated the education system over multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in WB

3 held for running illegal call centres to dupe US-based senior citizens

The Delhi Police has arrested three men for allegedly running illegal call centres here and defrauding senior citizens based in the US on the pretext of providing them with technology support against "malfunctioning" of their computers, officials said on Friday. The accused, identified as Jatin Lamba, Harshad Madaan and Vikas Gupta, were held in Delhi after police conducted overnight raids, whereas their counterpart Jayant Bhatia was arrested by Canadian Law Enforcement Agency from Toronto and Kulwinder Singh was arrested by the FBI, USA from New Jersey, they said. Police said Jatin Lamba with his brother Gagan Lamba was running a company from Ganesh Nagar, New Delhi camouflaging as a tech support company and used to run call centres that targeted US citizens. Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO, Special Cell) Prashant K Gautam said Gupta has been involved in the scam as calling agent to provide tech support to fix the technical glitch in the computer of the victim. Madaan, the DCP

Not just FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried: A look at five biggest CEO frauds ever

The manner of Sam Bankman-Fried's fall from grace is something the world has seen earlier, too. Here are five such biggest and most sensational instances

Web3, ChromeOS scams to dominate online threat landscape in 2023: Report

Security software company McAfee on Monday released its cyber threat predictions in which it predicts that Web3 and ChromeOS scams will dominate the online threat landscape in 2023

Google alerts Gmail users about 5 key holiday season scams, spams

Charity-related scams and phishing attempts are harmful to both the victims of the frauds and the charities that would have benefited from the donations

Delhi BJP demands FIR against Kejriwal in alleged scam of DJB funds

The Delhi BJP on Monday said an FIR should be registered against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged Rs 20 crore scam in the Delhi Jal Board. Addressing a press conference here, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the alleged scam was exposed in 2018 when Kejriwal was the chairman of the DJB. "I believe this is a much bigger scam of Rs 200 crore. Even after it was exposed in 2018, when Kejriwal was the DJB chairman, instead of taking any action, the commission of the accused was raised," the BJP leader said. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday filed a case in connection with the embezzlement of DJB funds worth Rs 20 crore. Bidhuri questioned why the Delhi chief minister did not take any action in the matter when the alleged scam was exposed. It is alleged that Rs 20 crore collected in water bills from consumers was not deposited in the bank accounts of the DJB by the accused. Delhi LG V K Saxena in September directed the chief secre

TMC leaders will be publicly beaten up for involvement in scams: Ghosh

BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh Friday courted yet another controversy by saying that the day is not far off when the TMC leaders will be "publicly beaten up" for their involvement in various graft cases in the state. Ghosh, known for making controversial remarks, said the TMC leaders will soon face "public ire" for their alleged involvement in various scams, including cattle smuggling and the SSC scandals. "The day is not far away when TMC leaders will be publicly beaten up. The people of the state are fed up with this corrupt TMC regime. They will soon face public ire for their involvement in various scams," he said addressing a protest rally. "Only two TMC leaders have been arrested and the party is crying foul over it. The day is not far off when the entire TMC leadership will be behind bars. None of the TMC leaders will be spared, they have to pay for their sins," he said. The CBI had arrested TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal from Bolpur on August 11 for

West Bengal to carve out seven new districts, total number rises to 30

CM Mamata Banerjee earlier also announced that a cabinet reshuffle is on cards, and around four to five new faces will be inducted to the council of ministers

Those involved in SSC scam must be punished, says TMC's Kunal Ghosh

Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh Saturday said that those involved in the teachers recruitment scam must be punished or it will create a precedent in future

Key official of Nirav Modi firm deported to India from Egypt: Officials

Subhash Shankar Parab was the Deputy General Manager (Finance) in Firestar Diamond

Scam-tainted Vyapam's name changed twice in 7 yrs but allegations linger

Allegations of scams are refusing to die down

ED arrests Karvy Group CMD Parthasarathy, CFO Hari in money laundering case

The ED case, filed under criminal provisions of PMLA, is based on multiple Telangana Police FIRs filed by HDFC Bank, few other banks and investors alleging clients' securities were illegally diverted