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Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story is an Indian Hindi -language biographical financial thriller streaming television series on SonyLIV directed by Hansal Mehta, with Jai Mehta serving as the co-director. [ 1] Based on the 1992 Indian stock market scam committed by many stockbrokers including Harshad Mehta, the series is adapted from ...
1⁄2 years before facing state charge) 1920–1922; 9 years state 1927–1934; deportation in 1934. Charles Ponzi ( / ˈpɒnzi /, Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was an Italian swindler and con artist who operated in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases included Charles ...
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
Website. www .theworldtoday .org. ISSN. 0043-9134. The World Today is a monthly global affairs magazine founded by Chatham House in 1945. [1] It was formerly published six times a year and aims to bring the Institute's analysis to a broad audience. It replaced the Bulletin of International News, which was published from 1925 to 1945.
Buy one, get one free. " Buy one, get one free " or " two for the price of one " is a common form of sales promotion. Economist Alex Tabarrok has argued that the success of this promotion lies in the fact that consumers value the first unit significantly more than the second one. So compared to a seemingly equivalent "Half price off" promotion ...
Elizabeth Holmes. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [ 2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood ...
Pigeon drop. The pigeon drop or Spanish handkerchief or Chilean handkerchief is a confidence trick in which a mark, or "pigeon", is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object. [ 2][ 3][ 4][page needed] One of the con artists will typically claim to have found the money or ...
The Radia tapes controversy relates to the telephonic conversations between Niira Radia, a political lobbyist in India, the (then) Indian telecom minister A. Raja, and senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008–09. The tapes were leaked out to the press, and were eventually ...