Continuing to crack the whip against agents of controversial multi-level marketing (MLM) companies, the Cyberabad City Police has arrested 58 independent representatives (IRs) of QNet for their involvement in 14 cases of fraud and cheating worth Rs1,000 crore. Those arrested by the police include three bank employees.
According to VC Sajjanar, commissioner of police at Cyberabad, primary investigation reveals that those arrested by the police have cheated unemployed youth under the pretext of giving them a job and collected around Rs1,000 crore in the MLM scam.
"Total 58 persons were arrested in 14 cases, which were registered against QNet and Vihaan Direct Selling Pvt Ltd in different police stations of Cyberabad are arrested. The godown of Vihaan Direct Selling at Bangalore and the office of Transview Enterprises (a marketing agency for QNet products) are seized. An amount of Rs2.7 crore in the bank account of Vihaan Direct Selling is frozen. The bank accounts of accused persons involved in the cases are also seized," Mr Sajjanar says.
According to the commissioner, this is a case of cheating by the Vihaan Direct Selling Pvt Ltd, a sub-franchisee of QI Group in India marketing under brand name of QNet. He says, "This case is cracked down by the sleuths of Cyberabad in various parts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bengaluru and Delhi, in which 58 persons were arrested in 14 cases, which were registered against Vihaan Direct Selling in different Police Stations of Cyberabad. There are total 30 cases registered on QNet Cyberabad. There are eight cases, which are under investigation with crime investigation department of Telangana Police."
Talking about the modus operandi of QNet and Vihaan, Mr Sajjanar says, at first the QNet and Vihaan promoters say to the new comers that there are various business projects such as cost optimization business, health and wellness products, watches and jewellery, personal care and beauty, tour packages, education packages (SMC MBA Certification). "The promoters trap the new comers with sweet words stating that they will be a part of the QNet Kingdom where they can build their own future. They say that if the new comers who paid money do not like QNet business packages, they can claim their refund within a month. But in fact, the promoters will drag the one month period by giving motivational classes, training sessions and also providing books such as 'The Parable of the pipeline', 'Questions are the answers', 'The Business School', 'Who Stole the American dream', 'The Copycat Marketing 101' and 'Talk the talk', to the newcomers and tell them to read all the books to gain knowledge over the business. Once the new comer joins into the QNet or Vihaan business through a referrer or promoter he becomes IR. After paying the money, the new comer gets some products and the promoter gets commission. The promoter then says to the IR that to get money he/she has to enrol two other members and they in turn join two each other new comers. As the number of persons increases down the line, the upline get more money as commissions."
"The QNet and Vihaan business model is a simple pyramid scheme in which the early entrants earn money and as the number of IR increases, finding more IRs (new comers) to join becomes difficult or impossible. IRs that joins late does not earn enough to cover their first outlay and the model collapses. It works as a binary scheme. Down the line, the number of persons to be joined becomes difficult or impossible. The scheme collapses at a point of time," the Cyberabad police commissioner added.
Out of the total 58 persons arrested, 51 are from Hyderabad, five from Bengaluru and one each from Delhi and Eluru.
Earlier in September 2016, the Hyderabad police had arrested four IRs, Sreenath Konda, Prasanna Kumar Reddy, Kanchana Vobbilichetty and Beemarthi Dhan Raj, for cheating about 200 people under the pretext of giving a job and collecting around Rs2 crore to Rs3 crore.
Hyderabad police has been warning public not to indulge or make any investment in QNet and Vihaan Direct Selling in any form. "As per law every member who promotes such business and enlist other members also will be prosecuted treating as promoters of multi-level marketing, chain system business," it says.
Later in mid-September, the MCI from Saudi Arabia raided meeting places of QNet in that country. “QNet marketing activity aims to mislead and deceive dealers and clients with quick profit. Therefore, they try to raise money illegally by claiming that they are investing such money. This kind of activity is considered illegal because it depends on deceiving, cheating, fraud and manipulation,” the Ministry had said in a release. (
Read: QNet: Saudi Arabia Raids Meeting Places of the Banned MLM)
Under a resolution, MCI has banned QNet marketing activity in Saudi Arabia. This includes prevention of QNet or Pyramid marketing, and also the prevention of making advertisement or promotion for such activity by any means. This is in addition to the Ministerial Decree issued by the Ministry of Interior, which stipulates that the financial fraud issues are considered crimes punishable by arrest.
There are several court cases and probe going on against QNet, its franchisee Vihaan and many people associated with the MLM scheme. In fact, three year ago, the Bombay High Court, in its judgement has observed "the deceit and fraud is camouflaged under the name of e-marketing and business."
While rejecting anticipatory bail applications of five accused in the multi-crore QNet scam, Justice Mridula Bhatkar, in a hard-hitting order on 6 May 2016, had said, "The motto of the company 'sell more, earn more' appears very attractive and innocuous. However, this motto is fully camouflaged. The company stands on a basic statement that people can be fooled. Thus, the true motto is 'sell more earn more' by fooling people. In fact, it is a chain where a person is fooled and then he is trained to fool others to earn money. For that purpose, workshops are conducted where study and business material is provided with a jugglery of words, promises and dreams. Thus, the deceit and fraud is camouflaged under the name of e-marketing and business."
"The claim that the wellness products, i.e., Biodisk and Chi Pendent are medicinal and spiritual products, are after all, a matter of faith. However, the applicants/ accused have launched these wellness products with ulterior motive and with correct judgment of vulnerability of the people. The holiday packages, which were sold or offered, without any choice left to the buyers. The entire business was Internet based and, therefore, the persons who are responsible, i.e., the top brass, i.e., the applicants/ accused, were not approachable to the persons who were aggrieved. The nature of the business was knitted in the interest of the directors and shareholders in such a manner that the persons who are at the lower level of the pyramid cannot get any access to put up their grievances. The manner in which the persons were contacted, incentives offered, the workshops were conducted, are best examples of inducement," Justice Bhatkar had remarked. (
Read: QNet: “It is a chain where a person is fooled and then he is trained to fool others to earn money” says Bombay HC order)
Gurupreet Singh Anand, a computer consultant from Lokhandawala, Andheri in his first information report (FIR) stated that his wife was duped for Rs30,000 by some people who had introduced themselves as the independent representatives (IRs) of QNet.
While arguing before the HC in person, he had contended that the illegal money circulation scheme is being conducted in India by changing names from GoldQuest to QuestNet to the current QNet.
Being in the organisation i have seen that most direct sellers are in huge debt as the credit is obtained very easily. and all that for what? to fake a lavish lifestyle..We are trained to show off, to fake huge turnovers and business model that is "GLOBAL" the truth is most developed countries like USA have banned QNET. these people are not even business persons. but they like to call themselves business persons. they are in reality sales executives who work only on commission.
The products that they offer for 4-5 lacs have been proven in several courts in india to be too overvalued. the cost of which would not be more than 15000. its a money circulation scheme dressed in MLM to give it a legal standing. This company is already banned in many states and liquidation order has been passes in late 2019. so please if you are getting into it beware. you could end up losing all your money
These people first trap a victim and then through him, trap the victims family members too, thus a family ends up losing 4 times the money initially quoted for one victim. A tech in Bangalore and many others have committed suicide because he did not want to trap his friends in this scheme to be profitable in this business..
Legality of a business may change from time to time. its getting banned now but may be someday they could come back with a different structure. BUT ETHICALITY THIS BUSINESS DOES NOT STAND ANY GROUNDS. its a ponzi scheme. If you dont want to get in the business of trapping people who are mostly your family , close friends or colleagues please stay away from this..
This business is only for those who can put a price tag on their friendships, on their relations and on trust. if you are not one of them stay away from qnet
listed below are direct sellers of qnet . if you happen to deal with them please be careful. study qnet and its scams before taking any decicion (they usually dont reveal the name of the company, the business model and that it is MLM or direct selling. they only tell it is a digital marketing or business development)
Mumbai Team
1. Vaishali gore (Also dubai)
2. Vishal mast
3. Pratik parmar
4. Kaustubh moghe
5. Praveen shettigar
6. V c gautam
7. Cs mallika ladi (Sap)
8. Yogesh jangam
9. Rupesh bamne
10. Jyoti parmar
11. Tejashree singh
12. Swati suman singh
13. Ravi kumar chaurasiya
14. Sheela mary
15. Manika bhardwaj
16. Sagar metkari
17. Sarika metkari
18. Prasad jadhav
19. Rakhi jadhav
20. Rohan naik
21. Reema kulkarni
22. Vijay naik
23. Gitesh kulkarni
24. Manju deshmukh
25. Preeti wahalkar
26. Anita naik
Bilaspur
1. Dikshit prashar
Bangalore
1. Pallavi rm (Dodda balapur)
2. Lalitha
3. Ravi
4. Chakra
5. Abhishek sajwan
6. Amarjeet singh
7. Thiruvengadam
8. Koushik r k
9. Pavithra krishna
10. Seena kothari
11. Mukesh
12. Deepika ca
13. Dinesh
14. Karthik
15. Athik
16. Srinivas
17. Naganad
Jaipur
1. Amit singh naruka
2. Sapna singh
3. Ravi jaangid
4. Himanshu verma
5. Praveen
6. Pradhuman
7. Aayushi sharma
8. Dinesh singh
Pune
1. Sameer deshmukh
2. Natasha khandve tumkar
3. Darshan patil
4. Chandni rajchandani
5. Nishikant dhumaal
6. Akhil akhate
7. Jigar vora
8. Amol shinde
9. Mohan ambarnath shelke
10. Mahesh ambarnath shelke
11. Sanketh kothari
12. Ca prateek aggarwal (Pune
13. Ca riya maheshwari (Pune)
14. Nitin garg (Pune/gurugram)
15. Vividha parab (Pune)
16. Mayank bharti
17. Prachi singh (Pune)
18. Vipul aggarwal
19. Nicki rathore (Pune)
20. Ca shaunk atre
21. Ishan atre
22. Kiran andre
23 prakash supekar
24. Abhiram kidey
Delhi
1. Devashish kotnala
2. Saheel karla
3. Priya mungayi
4. Vidya bhushan dewangan
5. Divya thukral sethi
6. Rocky bhatia
7. Akash bhatia
8. Saurabh sethi
9. Praneshwar prasad - husband
10. Kriti jaiswal - wife
11. Prateek jaiswal - brother
12. Kartik jaiswal - brother
13. Prashant jaiwal - cousin
14. Trisha dey
15. Mohit kaushik
16. Rajiv kanaujia
17. Priya mumgayi
18. Nikita sethi
19. Arpit nigam
20. Mohit kaushik
21. Nikita seth
22. Alpana mishra
23. Neel singh
24. Rajiv kanaujiya
25. Uday singh
26. Tufan singh
27. Amit chaudhary
28. Gaurav singh
29. Mukesh bharti
30. Archana rathi
31. Sumit rathi
32. Sumit wadhwa
33. Minakshi bharti
34. Sanjay solomon
35. Mariam solomon (Bala)
36. Mohit bhardwaj
37. Supriya
38. Satya vati (Delhi police)
39. Sunil kumar (Delhi police)
40. Rinku (Delhi police)
41. Shasi kant
42. Dilshad
43. Seema shekhawat
44. Shardul shekhawat
45. Sanjay prajapati
Noida
1. Avnee pandey
Chennai
1. Suriya
2. Ryan
3. Charles
Nagpur
1. Rajesh nawale
2. Manjiri nawale
3. Poonam raut
4. Deepak urkude
Kolkata
1. Sourav mukherjee
2. Amitav kar (Projected very successful)
3. Esha chakrobartty
4. Niladri chakrobartty
5. Titli basu
Others
1. Ritika singla gupta (Chandigarh)
2. Puneet bansal (Chandigarh)
3. Rajeev sikka (Kuwait)
4. Ca sachin garg (Gurugram)
5. Adv jyoti baudaria
6. Swati garg
7. Sanketh kothari
8. Urvashi shah
9. Bibhu prasad
10. Arpit nigam
Office place:
( Bangalore state, indranagar, Tippasandra market.)
My friends number:
1 raju: 6301756705
2 somaraj: 9182492164
3 Dhilli: 6361277601
Head: vinod upline: 9441795355
Officelo motham 250 mandi unnaru plz action tisukondi sir
I have been trapped by one college freind Amit Keyal ,from Calcutta University, who had once been a good friend and kind of a guide as well. I trusted him since college and respected him as I thought him to be a simple good man. But I am so mistaken as I released last year when he forced (by lying and showing confidence in him saying he is always there) me to pay him almost 2 Lakhs (I took a loan to give him that money) which he said he would give me back if I am not able to continue the so called e-commerce business (Qnet). Nothing was explained before the payment was made. all details about how the company works and what do i have to do are told after I was already trapped and had no other way but to follow what they say. They ask you to make friends and tell them that I m into a mind blowing business and henceforth trap the victim. I chose not to cheat people. My money is lost because since then I have called and messaged that so called businessman (traitor) numerous times but in vain and now after an year I have almost lost all hope of getting back my money .
But I m happy that I didn't turn into one of those kinds going around cheating my own friends and family.
There are many people making a lot of money out of this totally fraud MLM company. There are other MLM companies as well but they are ethical as they agree to that fact and reveal what a member has to do before trapping someone.
I Can provide Some Contact details hereunder:
Q Net Association in Kolkata and all over world.
Sl.No. Name Mobile No. Mobile No.
22 Amit Keyal +971-566584028
4 Ashish +977-9802036176
1 Avinash +91-9330958969
2 Dayanad Mittal +91-9920350221
8 Deepak Kankani +91-9830783316
20 Hemant Surana +91-8697540123
18 Murtazir Nazar +91-9051061879
13 Nishant Gupta +91-9860779185
19 Saru +91-9830235419
21 Shyam Chaudhry +91-7506226543 +91-9930136801
3 +91-8092084462
5 +91-9980096781
6 +91-8100058258
7 +91-8951174594
9 +977-9845096260
10 +91-9376518122
11 +61-411895943
12 +971-557703213
14 +91-9930761147
15 +91-9167780347
16 +91-9836331256
17 +91-9038082570
18 Babita Agarwal+91-9635276465
To get refund from Qnet immediatly send product cancellation/refund mail to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dear QNET Victims from *Bangalore*
All the bangalore victims have to go to the CID
office and meet
Mrs Shobha
Room no 2
New CID Building
CID Annexe Building
Carlton house
Palace Road
Bengaluru 560001
G Map -
https://goo.gl/maps/3D52MaQaesH2
Timings - Mon to Fri, 11 a.m to 3 p.m
To do :-
Mrs Shobha will give you a form and you need to go back home or to a
cyber cafe... fill this form, answer few questions and bring a printed
copy back to her.
Note:- Every form that is given to you has a serial number so please
do not miss place this form.
**For All india victims **
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Please submit a RBI complaint:
https://sachet.rbi.org.in/Complaints/Add
Company Name: Vihaan Direct Selling Pvt Ltd.(Qnet)
Company address: Level 07, Mfar Greenheart, Manyata Tech Park, Hebbal, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore 560045
Step By step video: https://youtu.be/98LwOZxCc98
I have been trapped by one college freind Amit Keyal ,from Calcutta University, who had once been a good friend and kind of a guide as well. I trusted him since college and respected him as I thought him to be a simple good man. But I am so mistaken as I released last year when he forced (by lying and showing confidence in him saying he is always there) me to pay him almost 2 Lakhs (I took a loan to give him that money) which he said he would give me back if I am not able to continue the so called e-commerce business (Qnet). Nothing was explained before the payment was made. all details about how the company works and what do i have to do are told after I was already trapped and had no other way but to follow what they say. They ask you to make friends and tell them that I m into a mind blowing business and henceforth trap the victim. I chose not to cheat people. My money is lost because since then I have called and messaged that so called businessman (traitor) numerous times but in vain and now after an year I have almost lost all hope of getting back my money .
But I m happy that I didn't turn into one of those kinds going around cheating my own friends and family.
There are many people making a lot of money out of this totally fraud MLM company. There are other MLM companies as well but they are ethical as they agree to that fact and reveal what a member has to do before trapping someone.
I Can provide Some Contact details hereunder:
Q Net Association in Kolkata and all over world.
Sl.No. Name Mobile No. Mobile No.
22 Amit Keyal +971-566584028
4 Ashish +977-9802036176
1 Avinash +91-9330958969
2 Dayanad Mittal +91-9920350221
8 Deepak Kankani +91-9830783316
20 Hemant Surana +91-8697540123
18 Murtazir Nazar +91-9051061879
13 Nishant Gupta +91-9860779185
19 Saru +91-9830235419
21 Shyam Chaudhry +91-7506226543 +91-9930136801
3 +91-8092084462
5 +91-9980096781
6 +91-8100058258
7 +91-8951174594
9 +977-9845096260
10 +91-9376518122
11 +61-411895943
12 +971-557703213
14 +91-9930761147
15 +91-9167780347
16 +91-9836331256
17 +91-9038082570
18 Babita Agarwal+91-9635276465
They can provide me the product here under:
Transaction Summary
Item Number Product Quantity Total S&H Fee Unit Amount Paid Amount
1 Mini MBA + eCommerce 1 0.00 1,230.00 1,230.00
2 Bril Cloud + Bril Net + Bril Voice -
12-Month 1 0.00 490.00 490.00
Total Amount Paid : USD 1,720.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTTXsK7gov0