Whistleblower deleted LinkedIn profile

As soon as the media tracked down Hari Prasad S V ( pictured), the whistleblower in the Nirav Modi scam, the Bengaluru-based entrepreneur deleted his LinkedIn profile. “These are big fraudsters and that makes me worried,” he said. venture, Setex Group in 1993.

In 2016, Prasad had written Setex Group was involved to the PMO about being in trading activities in Hong duped by Mehul Choksi, managing Kong, China, South Korea, director, Gitanjali Gems Taiwan, Thailand, and and business partner of Nirav Indonesia. Prasad, who has Modi, of ~130 million, after done a one-year course in opening a retail story of the international business from Gitanjali brand. Drawing parallels the Indian Institute of Foreign with the Kingfisher and Trade, said after spending Sahara scams, he said had earlier nearly 15 years abroad, he knocked on the doors of came back to India in 2004. the Bengaluru Police, the He wanted to take a break Enforcement Directorate and from business, and thus the Central Bureau of invested his savings in the Investigation, but to no avail. stock market. When the markets

Prasad’s letter to the PMO crashed in 2008, he started was made public by the looking for other avenues Congress. He, however, denies of income. Prasad came across affiliation to any political party. a newspaper advertisement in A 1984 agriculture science 2012 and invested in the retail graduate from Andhra jewellery business with Pradesh Agriculture University, Choksi, who promised him an Bapatla, Prasad also has assured monthly income of an MBA from the Indian ~1.5 million for an investment Institute of Planning and of ~100 million. But eventually, Management in New Delhi. Prasad lost all his money. He belongs to a business family in Andhra Pradesh and has More on www.businessstandard.com worked with a French company, before starting his own