Woman gets five years jail for chit fund fraud
The Hindu
She and her late husband allegedly cheated people of ₹43 lakh in 2010
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced a woman to imprisonment of five years for chit fund fraud.
Economic Offences Wing (EOW)-II Headquarters, Chennai for Chit Fraud, had arrested the accused Pappa alias Dhanalaxmi and her husband Subburaj who were residing at Gangaipuram, T. Nagar in Chennai on charges of defrauding people by running a chit scheme.
In 2010, they canvassed and induced the public that they were conducting monthly chit. They collected money but after the maturity period they defaulted the chit amount and reportedly went absconding. Thirty eight complaints about embezzlement of ₹43 lakh were received.
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