MLM firm busted, 5 arrested

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The Koramangala police along with officials of the Central Crime Branch busted the international multi-level marketing (MLM) company QNet and arrested five persons who were collecting lakhs of rupees from the gullible people promising foreign trips and higher returns.

Based on a complaint filed by a victim, Nitin Vaidya, police officials from Koramangala searched a coffee shop and arrested Sanjay Suri (32) and U. Nikil Santosh Kumar (29) from Telangana, Naren Sharma (28) from Himachal Pradesh, Susheel Shanghvi (34) from Mumbai and Prashath Kumar (34) from Kerala and recovered six mobile phones, a car, a bike and Rs. 11,510 from them.

According to the police the accused - engineering, MBA and MCA graduates, who were part of the QNet chain-link company based in Hong Kong — had lured Mr. Vaidya to invest Rs. 7.8 lakh promising a trip to London and also assured high rate of commission for getting more members into the company. However, Mr. Vaidya claimed that he was neither sent to the trip nor they returned his money following which he approached the police on April 10. On questioning, the accused confessed that they have also been cheated but they decided to get more members to the company’s fold to recover their amount. The police are investigating to track the prime accused, based outside the country.

The accused

were part of

the QNet chain-link company based

in Hong Kong