Govt will initiate action against fraudulent investment schemes: Pilot

21 May 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over the rising fraudulent money raising activities, Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said the government is making all efforts to ensure that entities do not misuse existing loopholes to defraud investors.  As per Pilot, Corporate Affairs Ministry and other regulators (SEBI and RBI) have initiated actions against fraudulent investment schemes in the wake of Saradha scam.

An Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) has been set up to discuss ways to tackle fraudulent investment schemes after Kolkata-based Saradha Group scam that allegedly duped lakhs of investors of their savings. Further, SEBI has asked for more powers to tackle these issues and the ministry is willing to help it, he added. Generally collective investment schemes come under the purview of capital market regulator SEBI while many schemes such as chit funds are exempted from its ambit. 

Earlier the minister had written to all state governments about companies having dubious investment schemes cropping up in different parts of the country. Further, there are compliance issues besides issues in detecting companies on how they misuse the funds, Pilot added.  

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