Bureau Report
Port Blair, Oct 03: Since last one month Dipankar Das, a youth of Manjeri is leading a miserable life. He has been hiding from his neighbours and friends from whom he had collected nearly Rs. 6 Lakhs for a company called ‘Express Cultivation’, which ultimately emerged as a chit fund company and closed their operation in Andaman without any intimation.
Every morning some or the other investor finds him and demands their money back, which obviously Dipankar doesn’t have. Moreover, since last three months he has also not received his payment from the ghost company, which had promised good commission in money collection job.
The Bogus Company started functioning in A & N Islands since April 2012 and on 17, August 2013 the company stopped it’s all services in A & N Islands. The entire business was collecting money was controlled by a web based software, which stopped working since 17 Augusts 2013. Confused field and office staffs when tried to call all the senior officers of the company, who live in Kolkata, they found that all phones numbers were switched off.
Meanwhile, those who are supposed to get their money back within one year, on maturity, started troubling all the 50 odd field marketing staffs, who were actively collecting money from villagers on commission basis.
Many started threatening these marketing guys of dire consequences, although these marketing guys, mostly from remote villages, were just doing their duties like any other marketing agents of renowned insurance companies, not knowing well about the background of the Express cultivation, which is a unit of Express Groups.
However, acting very cleverly, Dipankar Das managed to get print out of all the Bank Account, Money collection and all other details, well before the company could disable the web based software from its web page www.expressgroup.co.in. He also managed to get some pamphlets of the Bogus Company in which photographs of the Chairman, Managing Directors and other senior officers are mentioned with all the details of fake projects, which they promised to woo investors in Andaman.
All these agents are now in troubled waters, neither they have money for their family nor any amount to return to the investors. The Ghost company has suddenly vanished in thin air, shattering dreams of thousands of investors and all staffs of the company.
Some of these youths have now lodged a complaint in Police Station Pahargaon on 3rd September 2013 but instead of helping them the staffs of PS Pahargaon are reportedly asking the complainants to dig out more and more details about the case.
On 29, April 2013 Andaman Sheekha had run a story with title “Mushrooming in Chit Fund Companies continues; Administration clueless”, pointed out that how chit fund companies are looting islanders but till now Police Department did not arrest a single person in this regard.
Andaman Sheekha is providing all possible details of the imposters who have looted innocent people of these Islands. Hope that soon there will be crackdown on these bogus companies. Hope under the dynamic leadership of new Superintendent of Police, South Andaman, Mr. Chinmoy Biswal, the A & N Police, will be able to catch these culprits. Andaman Sheekha is ready to share all necessary documents to police for this investigation.
