Team Goemkarponn
MARGAO: In a significant move, the Goa Police’s Economic Offences Cell (EOC) has charged a couple from Salcete and five other people with defrauding almost 50 investors out of Rs 100 crore.
Ivon Suresh Joaquim Almeida of Navelim filed a complaint, according to the police, alleging that Myron Rodrigues and his wife Deepali Parab had defrauded him of almost Rs 36 lakh by pretending to invest his money in the stock market.
More accusations were later made against the defendants, and according to the complaints, over 50 investors totaling Rs 100 crore were defrauded. Salcete taluka is home to the majority of those who have been deceived by the pair.
Since 2011, the complainants have begun making investments. To the investors, Rodrigues identified himself as a stockbroker and Parab as a financial specialist. They are not, however, registered with the RBI or SEBI to engage in securities trading. Despite receiving notices, the pair has been escaping and avoiding the legal system.
It has come to light that Rodrigues escaped India and traveled via Dubai to London. The Bureau of Immigration has issued a Look Out circular (LOC) against him, and Interpol has issued a Blue Notice. According to authorities, the procedure for issuing a red corner notice is currently in progress.
Rodrigues and Parab are the owners of DMA Designing New Worlds LLP, a real estate company that was registered with the Registrar of Companies and is connected to Prospect Realty’s Idyllic Goan Gateways and Developments Private Limited.
The company’s directors are Sushant Manohar Ghodge from Pernem, Navnik Mario Pereira from Benaulim, Salcete, Vijay Dattatrey Joils from Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, and Nolan Lawrence Antao and Joaquim Rosario Pires from Fatorda.
Advocate Siddharth Sardesai, meanwhile, said that false graphic material involving his clients Nolan Antao and Sushant Ghodge’s photos is being shared on social media in relation to the FIR pertaining to the Economic Offenses Cell.
Additionally, he asserted that there is no outstanding sum owed to his clients’ business.
“My clients will present their case before the relevant authorities and the Court, as the matter is sub judice,” the advocate stated.
