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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Panel makes Ponzi firms pay -Lalmohan Patnaik and Subrat Das

Panel makes Ponzi firms pay -Lalmohan Patnaik and Subrat Das

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published Published on Aug 28, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 28, 2017
-The Telegraph

Cuttack: What the state government failed to do, the Justice Madan Mohan Das Commission did.

The commission, which is identifying small investors duped by dubious financial companies, has on its own ensured return of the invested amount usurped by sham companies to more than 1,200 persons even as the government continues to drag its feet on the issue.

Some of the investors got their money on Tuesday. Though the number of such investors may be small, the step is significant. This may force the government, which has not been able to return money to a single person despite tall claims, to step up efforts in this direction. The state government's assurance to return money to small investors based on the suggestions of the judicial commission had come nearly three years ago.

The commission had since May last year recommended the names of 60,941 small investors, who had deposited Rs 10,000 or less, as eligible for compensation. In November 2014, the government had announced to return money to the small investors and set up a corpus fund of Rs 300 crore for the purpose.

"The commission has persuaded some of the unauthorised deposit collection companies to return the invested amount and 1,249 investors have so far been paid back their money by the firms", Justice Madan Mohan Das recently told The Telegraph. "In fact, six of them got their money back on Tuesday," he said.

Finance minister Sashibhushan Behera, however, told The Telegraph: "The government has already initiated field verification of the claims, endorsed by the commission."

"Multi-departmental committees at the field level has been entrusted with the task and once the verification was over, the government will be able to do something," said the finance minister.

An official in the finance department said: "The process may take some more time. So far, we have been able to verify the claims of 12,000 people. The third report submitted by the commission is yet to be processed. The field teams have assessed the first two reports."

Six persons got back their money yesterday because of the commission. Of the 341 dubious financial companies the commission had listed for duping investors, 22 have come forward so far to pay back the money. Among them are Rose Valley Group of Companies, Real Vision International Ltd, Prayag Infotech Highrise Ltd, Swabhiman Developers Ltd and Sainath Securities Ltd.

Justice Das took charge of the commission appointed to probe into the deposit collection scam in the state on February 5, 2015, following the death of Justice R.K. Patra on January 28, 2015.

The additional job assigned to the Commission was "to identify the bona fide investors affected by transactions of fraudulent financial establishments / companies and to suggest the modality of payment of compensation, the names of small investors eligible for compensation and the amount of compensation payable from the corpus fund or otherwise".

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The Telegraph, 28 August, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170828/jsp/frontpage/story_169550.jsp


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