Forensic analysis of computers, laptops, hard disks and CDs seized from Speak Asia officials and associates would help revealing money and member trail of the MLM network
The Economic Offences Wings (EOW) of Mumbai Police, in continuation with its investigation into the multi crore Speak Asia scam, is scientifically analysing the company’s computers, hard disks, laptops and other material seized, to build a strong case against the multi-level marketing (MLM) company.
According to the sources close to the investigation, all the material such as computers, laptops, CDs, hard disks, seized during the arrest of the various officials and associates of Speak Asia, has been sent to the forensic laboratory for a scientific analysis. Though, the officer refused to name the laboratory, but said that the process is underway and would soon provide more clues.
“Since the data from the seized material would be analysed by experts, it would easier to understand the technicalities and hence it would help in investigation. Information related to Speak Asia members, employees, the money it collected from its panellists may also be revealed,” said the sources.
Computer forensics is examination of digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing and presenting facts and opinions about the information. It has been used in a number of high profile cases and is becoming widely accepted as reliable within court systems in several countries.
Speak Asia duped around 23 lakh investors to the tune of Rs2,000 crore. It promises a weekly income, merely on filling online survey forms. Initially the company paid the money to its panellists but stopped all the payments since May 2010. After complaints were lodged against the company, it came under the scrutiny of EOW, Mumbai.
Subsequently the investigating agency arrested Speak Asia’a chief operating officer (COO), Tarak Bajaypee and along with few other employees. Later, on 30th September, EOW arrested Speak Asia’s financial consultant Sanjeev Dandona and Nayan Khandor, a Mumbai-based Web designer responsible for designing e-surveys. It was revealed that the survey, which the company used to send to its panellist were designed in Mumbai itself and not in Singapore as claimed by Speak Asia.
Earlier Moneylife reported that EOW was investigating the money trail of Speak Asia as almost half of the money collected by the company Asia was transferred to Singapore, while the rest may still be in India. (http://www.moneylife.in/article/speak-asia-where-is-the-money/20601.html)
Currently, Manoj Kumar, the chief executive officer of the company, is absconding.
According to a news report, while it is being investigated in India, Speak Asia has been suspected to have resurfaced in Brazil under the new name “Mister Colibri”, which has a business model similar to Speak Asia and also lists Manoj Kumar as its largest investor.
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Your more than half popularity has already been destroyed due to this type of half cooked, whimsical and unsubstantiated reports. Related persons have all come to know the REAL facts and developements of SPEAKASIA through its Panelists' site aispa.com and that too on the daily basis. These type of false and baseless news only hampers your dignity and reducing your readership base. Believe me each of your findings and reporting is incorrect. You better know your motive but keep it in mind that public is not that fool which you presume. It will only be wiser on your part and for the (otherwise short life of) MONEYLIFE to either report after proper investigation of the case or keep mum. Avoid my advice to your own peril I suggest you.
JAI SPEAKASIA
without verification matter will be on but i sincerely request to the officer of eow
there must be a way to release the public money......
investigation is must...but please kindly look after the panelist u hadn't received the money from speakasia....
atleast u can help the people 12.5 lakh
they will be helpful to u
i would only request to eow that please let the public money should released ...
Laws are useless when men are pure, unenforceable when men are corrupt.
Article says :
Though, the officer refused to name the laboratory, but said that the process is underway and would soon provide more clues.
Why ? Bcoz you will stand in the laboratory and beg for news.
Article says :
Speak Asia duped around 23 lakh investors to the tune of Rs2,000 crore.
Whether they duped or dubbed, your team earns good amount of revenue from google adsense but composing masala articles.
Article says :
Initially the company paid the money to its panellists but stopped all the payments since May 2010
Bcoz you and lot of others wanted to earn for few months through ad revenue in form of writing, but after jan feb 2012. You have right only about 2g. But make sure our tamil hero 2G Raja, Sonia G, Manmohan G will show slippers on your magazine and website.
Rest other stories, were old cut copy paste. Think differently like, Mr.Manoj credit cards are freezed, or, Somebody stole Petrol from the seized speakasia benz cars, or, moneylife is going deep indepth to understand the root map or speakaisa , or , AISPA president caught red handed while blogging in a internet cafe near mumbai etc...
Then see? your internet ad revenue will pick up like our business in speakasia. And users will also enjoy your imaginative comics.
Congrates cut copy paste author. Rather yours a bad article.
I think money life open their mouth only for EOW tell something... against speakasia...
we are the normal people who joined in speakasia.... Money life don't want to hear our opinion...
only 3 - 4 complaints filed against speakasia..... think this only 3 - 4 complaints came from 18 Lackh people ... and one of the complaint supreme court reject due to not presented by the complaited person while hearing on court....
Money life don't want to give supreme court hearing about speakasia case...
we all people still belive in speakasia...
speakasia is ready to pay their member...
the transactions was blocked by banks because of RBI instruction given to bank... You mentioned that company stopped payment..... what a fales information you have given here...
Why money life giving a false news like this...
And EOW only looks how to block company..... the elusive EOW made delay of the on going supreme court procedure by not presenting for 2 - 3 meetings .. that meeting was arranged by the supreme court , headed by Ex.Chief Justice Hon. Mr. RC.Lahoti'ji ...
company ready to pay us....
but the EOW want to block company..
still company fights for restarts its operation... we all people support speakasia....
Jai speakasia....
proud to be speakasian
Are we living in such a corrupt world?
First email and invite Anna Hazarae, he will come and clean the corrupted areas by taking small amount of bribe.
We are very much proud in saying speakasian, why ? Its my family ? It had gave life to us once and will cont still the name exist.
And kindly dont compare with World, why bcoz you are living in a country and not around the world.
I have seen many comments before eulogizing Anna Hazare by two-tongued speakasians. Now you are saying he is also corrupt. True MLM men !!
One of our free-thinking readers Mr B K is writing: Before reading the following The Editor of this blog feels it is apt to recall that the Corporate Frauds Watch filed a criminal case against Team Life Care and Bajaj Allianz for indulging in money circulation scheme in selling life insurance policies.
Why the fuss is only about 500/- membership fee when everything TLC is doing is unethical n illegal? Can any of the TLC supporters explain the below violations by TLC and still say TLC is LEGAL?
1. Amended IRDA regulation clearly says procuring business by any means other than by specified agents is a violation. Procuring insurance by Referral method (popularly known as MLM and Chain system) and passing on commission to referrers is being done by TLC which is a clear violation.
2. The defending members of TLC are unaware that TLC has two different companies to carry out their fraudulent ways intelligently.
3. TLC universal is the company in which all the members are working under and paid their commission. TEAM LIFE CARE Co. I Pvt Ltd is the company which has a corporate tie up with Bajaj Allianz and supposed to procure business through their specified agents licensed by IRDA.
4. Sourcing of insurance business by TLC universal members and submitting to Bajaj Allianz through Team Life care is a clear violation of IRDA regulation act which is not known to most of the members.
5. Every single insurance proposal form should have Specified Person attestation about details of how long he has known the policy seeker .In case of TLC Universal sourced business, the same is done by Team Life care staff later on before submitting to Bajaj Allianz. The customer who receives a policy bond through TLC doesn’t even know the attested licensed agent as mentioned in the policy bond. Doesn’t it ring any bells?
6. None of the pending petitions are against IRDA regulations and allows getting the business in the above mentioned methods and doesn’t regularize the violations of IRDA Corporate agent’s policy.
One can access the amended regulations on 12th July 2010 in this respect by pasting the below link in browser…
http://www.irda.gov.in/ADMINCMS/cms/frmG... >> Life >> Regulations
The purpose of inflicting regulations is to avoid mis-selling and allowing transparency to the insurance seeker to know the complete details of the policy being taken. This can only be done by an IRDA licensed agent.
Now, the said company has many people sourcing business by inducing the money to be earned by being a member of the system. To be a member one has to buy insurance policy and refer more people for income. The members are not aware anything about insurance and products being sold. One can verify the same by attending their seminars as listed on their website which incidentally happens in Mr.Shyam’s town also regularly.
The owners of the company are getting richer and richer by getting huge commission from Bajaj Allianz by fooling the members about the legality of the TLC Universal P Ltd & Team Life care Co I P ltd and suppress the facts. For a corporate agent the commission received would be around 40 % to 60% product wise on the sourced business. For every 1 lakh they get about 50 k first year the amount spent for commission would not be more than 10k for all sort of commission payments to the members.
One has to decide what is fair….. real pain to see that none of the above bloggers even think about the poor man who has bought insurance only because of the dreams shown to him about earning in lakhs which doesn’t serve his purpose …TLC claims to be having over 30 lakh members, but never mentions the success ratio.
One of our free-thinking readers Mr B K is writing: Before reading the following The Editor of this blog feels it is apt to recall that the Corporate Frauds Watch filed a criminal case against Team Life Care and Bajaj Allianz for indulging in money circulation scheme in selling life insurance policies.
Why the fuss is only about 500/- membership fee when everything TLC is doing is unethical n illegal? Can any of the TLC supporters explain the below violations by TLC and still say TLC is LEGAL?
1. Amended IRDA regulation clearly says procuring business by any means other than by specified agents is a violation. Procuring insurance by Referral method (popularly known as MLM and Chain system) and passing on commission to referrers is being done by TLC which is a clear violation.
2. The defending members of TLC are unaware that TLC has two different companies to carry out their fraudulent ways intelligently.
3. TLC universal is the company in which all the members are working under and paid their commission. TEAM LIFE CARE Co. I Pvt Ltd is the company which has a corporate tie up with Bajaj Allianz and supposed to procure business through their specified agents licensed by IRDA.
4. Sourcing of insurance business by TLC universal members and submitting to Bajaj Allianz through Team Life care is a clear violation of IRDA regulation act which is not known to most of the members.
5. Every single insurance proposal form should have Specified Person attestation about details of how long he has known the policy seeker .In case of TLC Universal sourced business, the same is done by Team Life care staff later on before submitting to Bajaj Allianz. The customer who receives a policy bond through TLC doesn’t even know the attested licensed agent as mentioned in the policy bond. Doesn’t it ring any bells?
6. None of the pending petitions are against IRDA regulations and allows getting the business in the above mentioned methods and doesn’t regularize the violations of IRDA Corporate agent’s policy.
One can access the amended regulations on 12th July 2010 in this respect by pasting the below link in browser…
http://www.irda.gov.in/ADMINCMS/cms/frmG... >> Life >> Regulations
The purpose of inflicting regulations is to avoid mis-selling and allowing transparency to the insurance seeker to know the complete details of the policy being taken. This can only be done by an IRDA licensed agent.
Now, the said company has many people sourcing business by inducing the money to be earned by being a member of the system. To be a member one has to buy insurance policy and refer more people for income. The members are not aware anything about insurance and products being sold. One can verify the same by attending their seminars as listed on their website which incidentally happens in Mr.Shyam’s town also regularly.
The owners of the company are getting richer and richer by getting huge commission from Bajaj Allianz by fooling the members about the legality of the TLC Universal P Ltd & Team Life care Co I P ltd and suppress the facts. For a corporate agent the commission received would be around 40 % to 60% product wise on the sourced business. For every 1 lakh they get about 50 k first year the amount spent for commission would not be more than 10k for all sort of commission payments to the members.
One has to decide what is fair….. real pain to see that none of the above bloggers even think about the poor man who has bought insurance only because of the dreams shown to him about earning in lakhs which doesn’t serve his purpose …TLC claims to be having over 30 lakh members, but never mentions the success ratio.
Pata nahi sale kab tak vapas karenge madarchood.....