Didn't get response from ED, CBI, SEBI: "Whistleblower" who 'informed' PMO about Nirav Modi's scam

NEW DELHI: Posing a series of questions to the Prime Minister and his government, the Congress accused the PMO of taking no action even after a complaint was filed to the Prime Minister's Office as early as July 26, 2016 about a scam involving Nirav Modi. The whistleblower said -

We opened a franchise store with an investment of Rs 10 Cr with Mehul Choksi, MD Gitanjali Group. As per the agreement, he was supposed to give us gold worth Rs 10 Cr but he gave us gold worth Rs 5 Cr only. We finally filed 2 FIRs against him: Hariprasad SV, Jeweller, Bengaluru pic.twitter.com/eQyrblhRRa

— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2018

 

Wrote to PMO in '16 requesting them to undertake detailed investigation in the matter after we did not get any response from ED, CBI, SEBI, & Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Later, I got a mail from RoC that my case is closed: Hariprasad SV, Jeweller, Bengaluru #NiravModi pic.twitter.com/TZKhVtPFM5 — ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2018

  Congress media in-charge Randeep Surjewala said Modi was made aware of this entire fraud by a whistleblower, Hari Prasad, by way of a written complaint filed July 26, 2016 and acknowledged by the PMO.

Why did PM not take any action to protect interests of banking sector despite a written complaint having been received & acknowledged on 26thJuly,2016? Why were all the authorities,including Finance Ministry, its financial intelligence units & authorities sleeping on their job?2/

— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) February 15, 2018

  Surjewala said whistleblower Hari Prasad had written to the Prime Minister's Office as early as July 2016, alerting the government about the "biggest bank loot scam in 70 years" in independent India.