Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhubaneswar has arrested an absconding woman fraudster from Kalyan in East Mumbai concerning a Rs 2 crore fraud case in Odisha.
The accused, Rammi Bhuyan alias Rammi Pusty (39), wife of Bimalananda Bhuyan is a resident of Ward No.43 at Adarsh Nagar in Chhatisgarh’s Durg.
The arrested accused was produced before the Hon’ble Court of JMFC 4th, Kalyan, and brought to Bhubaneswar on the strength of transit remand. She will be produced before the Hon’ble P.O, Designated Court under OPID Act, Cuttack today i.e. on 27.03.2024.
EOW PS Case No.10 dt.17.12.2020 U/s 406/420/467/468/ 471/120-B IPC has been registered on the allegation of one Bikash Podar of Sambalpur against Bimalananda Bhuyan and his wife Rammi Bhuyan for cheating 53 investors of Rs.1.2 Cr. on the pretext of supplying LED monitors for advertisements through their LLP Company “Quick Click AD Media”. They were luring the general public to invest with them to get lucrative profits from the advertisements.
The two accused partners of LLP Company “Quick Click Ad Media”, during the period 2017-18, induced the general public to invest through two of their schemes to purchase LED monitors to be placed in prominent places for advertisements by different agencies.
The public was attracted by promising potential shares from the profits from advertising of different sales agencies in the LED monitors. In this manner, they were able to collect public deposits that run in crores and finally, without purchasing any LED monitors they misappropriated the collected amounts and absconded.
‘Quick Click Ad Media’ is a Limited Liability Partnership Company registered with ROC, Chhattisgarh in the year 2017. The Company has its Head Office at Shyamnagar, Raipur, Chhattisgarh and the branch offices at Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh and Jaydev Vihar in Bhubaneswar.
Both the FIR named accused Bimalananda Bhuyan and his wife Rammi Bhuyan, partners of ‘Quick Click Ad Media’. During the year 2017-18, they floated advertisements to attract the public for high returns on their investments with the LLP Company for purchasing LED monitors to be placed at the conspicuous public places to run the advertisements given by different agencies.
The investors were being lured to invest in its two schemes. In the first scheme, the investors were required to invest Rs.54,000 (for 3’x3’ LED monitor) to get Rs.3,100 per month for 03 years. In the second scheme, the investors were required to invest Rs.3 lakhs (for 6.4”x6.4” LED monitors) to get 70% profit for 03 years after which the investor will get 30% of profit and the rest 70% will go to the Company.
The Company had its activities mainly in Districts like Khordha, Koraput, Nayagarh, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Ganjam etc. in Odisha. The LLP has also spread its activities in Chhattisgarh State.
As found, the LLP through its partners Bimalananda Bhuyan and Rammi Bhuyan has cheated more than a hundred investors of around Rs.2 Cr. To evade police arrest, the accused couple had long absconding for years.
The arrested accused, Rammi Bhuyan, was working with a Real Estate Company at Kalyan, East Mumbai by changing her name and preparing new Aadhaar, Voter ID and PAN also. However, the accused, Bimalananda Bhuyan, is still absconding and as ascertained soon after the occurrence he has flown to Dubai. Investigation of the case is on, the EOW added.