CBI arrests 11 over Pearls Group scam
The Hindu
Group allegedly collected ₹60,000 crore from five crore investors
The CBI has arrested 11 people in a case , which allegedly collected about ₹60,000 crore from close to five crore investors from across the country by floating unauthorised schemes.
Five of the accused, Chander Bhushan Dhillon, Prem Seth, Manmohan Kamal Mahajan, Mohanlal Sehajpal and Kanwaljit Singh Toor, were from the group.
The others, who are businessmen from Delhi, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and other places, have been identified as Praveen Agarwal, Mannoj Jain, Akash Agarwal, Anil Kumar Khemka, Subhash Agarwal and Rajesh Agarwal.

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