PANJIM: With the police failing to achieve a breakthrough in the alleged advertising scam by All Brand Promotions, most victims seem to have given up all hopes of recovering their hard-earned money.
Speaking to Herald, an aggrieved Avelino D’Souza (a victim) said, “We have lost hope of recovering the money from the fraudulent company and on the other side the police have also told us that there is no scope of tracing the culprits who duped many Goans in the name of advertising to a tune of Rs 1.25 crore”
“Victims also have started to forget the entire chapter and have decided to let go the matter. In recent times we have not followed the status of the complaint with the police department. All the victims have lost complete hope of recovering the money,” D’Souza added.
He said, “The company is accused of duping several people to the tune of Rs 1.25 crore and from the EOC, we came to know that all documents used by the company were fake.”
However, the two accused had been identified by EOC as Muzzamil Tajder, a native of Allahabad and Shabab Khan from Mumbai and accordingly Goa Police had also issued search notices to various other police stations across the country. Goa Police, with the help of Mumbai Police, had also traced the addresses of the accused as mentioned on their ID cards and they too turned out to be fake.
Meanwhile, the Economic Offences Cell is yet to trace the persons involved in the alleged scam.
