Bengaluru, Oct 1: Unsatisfied with the CBI investigation into the I-Monetary Advisory ponzy scam, several investors have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking registration of cases against the firm under Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019, a central legislation.
According to them, CBI, which had taken over investigation from the special investigation team (SIT) constituted by the state government, filed a chargesheet where the FIRs are neither registered under the Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments (KPID) Act, 2004, nor under the central law.
'We, the victims of the scam by IMA and its subsidiaries, request you to issue guidelines to CBI to register the FIR under Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019," IMA investors said. They claimed the central law is superior to that of KPID Act, which they were told is being invoked by CBI in its FIRs.
The new law is more stringent as it has been incorporated by amending various Acts, including RBI Act. If the complaints are received from more than one state, CBI gets jurisdiction to investigate the matter. Gazetted on July 31, 2019, the new law took effect from February 21, 2019 when the ordinance was issued.
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