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Abdul Karim Telgi (29 July 1961 – 23 October 2017) was not a convicted Indian counterfeiter, because court cleared 7 individuals including Abdul Karim Telgi citing lack of evidence against Abdul Karim Telgi and others. He earned money by printing counterfeit stamp paper in India, with the size of the scam estimated to be around ₹ 300 billion (US$3.6 billion).
Abdul Karim Telgi was an Indian counterfeiter, who made fake stamp papers and was the main person involved in the Scam in 2003. He was imprisoned for 30 years. In 2023, a TV show series ‘Scam 2003: The Telgi Story’ on SonyLIV, based on his life, was released. When Abdul Karim was around seven or eight years old, his father passed away. The reason behind his father’s death was not clear, but he was known to have diabetes and was worried about the financial condition of the family.
Oct 27, 2017 · Abdul Karim Telgi's arrest in Rajasthan's Ajmer in 2001 revealed his vast wealth, including 36 properties and over 120 bank accounts in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and other cities.
Aug 8, 2023 · Abdul Karim Telgi was born in Belgaum, Karnataka, on July 29, 1961. His father was an employee at the Indian railways and passed away when Telgi was young. Telgi supported his own education by selling fruits and vegetables on trains and eventually moved to Saudi Arabia. He began his career as a counterfeiter upon returning to India after seven years. He created fake passports and documents to export labour from India to Saudi Arabia through his company, Arabian Metro Travels.
Abdul Karim Telgi, the kingpin of a multi-crore counterfeit stamp paper scam, began as a furniture sales executive with a salary of Rs 3,800 in Mumbai. Abdul Karim Telgi (centre), prime accused in ...
Oct 27, 2017 · Abdul Karim Ladsab Telgi, the son of a railway employee and a former travel agent, was accused of running a multi-crore counterfeit stamp paper racket for almost a decade until he was arrested in 2001 by the Karnataka Police in Ajmer. Telgi printed fake stamp papers allegedly in connivance with officials and politicians, and sold them to bulk purchasers such as banks, stock brokerage firms and insurance companies. The racket allegedly operated in at least 18 states through 350 agents in 70 ...
Sep 4, 2023 · Abdul Karim Telgi. Hansal Mehta’s Scam 2003 has been on the wait list for many. The director’s Scam 1992, which explored the contentious rise and fall of stock mogul Harshad Mehta, laid the ...
Aug 6, 2023 · The information gleaned from the questioning of these men led Pune Police to one Abdul Karim Telgi, who had been arrested a few months earlier in 2001 on charges of forgery and was then lodged in Bengaluru jail. With mounting public pressure, the Maharashtra government constituted a Special Investigation Team, (SIT), and Telgi’s run came to an end. A separate Karnataka Police SIT, headed by IPS officer Sri Kumar, was called STAMPIT.
Oct 26, 2017 · Bengaluru: Abdul Karim Telgi, a convict in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam, died of multiple organ failure at a government hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday. Telgi (56) died around 3.55pm at ...
Oct 27, 2017 · Abdul Karim Telgi during one of his appearances in court in Pune during the hearing of the case. (Source: Arul Horizon/Express Archive) Abdul Karim Telgi, 57, mastermind of the fake stamp paper scam which rocked political and police establishments in multiple states — especially Maharashtra and Karnataka — in the early part of the new millennium, died after he suffered a cardiac arrest following multi-organ failure, at a government hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday afternoon.
Oct 26, 2017 · NEW DELHI: Abdul Karim Telgi, a convict in the multi-crore counterfeit stamp paper scam, died of multi-organ failure at a Bengaluru government hospital.
Sep 1, 2023 · In 2017, Abdul Karim Telgi's life met an abrupt end, as he succumbed to meningitis, compounded by longstanding health issues like diabetes and hypertension. In retrospect, Abdul Karim Telgi emerges as a complex figure—a man whose life journey began in humble circumstances but ascended to the creation of an empire, albeit one built upon ethically uncertain foundations.
Sep 19, 2023 12:03 AM IST. Read this news in brief form. Jayant Tinaikar exposed Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind of India's largest financial scam, of counterfeit stamp papers valued at over ...
Sep 1, 2023 · Abdul Karim Telgi, born in Karnataka, on July 29, 1961, supported his own education by selling fruits and vegetables on trains and eventually moved to Saudi Arabia. His father, an Indian Railways ...
Abdul Karim Ladsaab Telgi was born on Saturday, 29 July 1961 ( age 56 years; at the time of death) in Khanapur, Belgaum, Karnataka. His zodiac sign is Leo. He did his schooling at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya English Medium High School, Khanapur. He pursued a bachelor’s degree in commerce at Gogte College of Commerce, Belgaum in 1984. [1]
Scam 2003 - The Telgi Story: With Gagandev Riar, Iravati Harshe, Kirandeep Kaur Sran, Kiran Karmarkar. Born in Khanapur in Karnataka, Telgi became the mastermind behind one of the most ingenious schemes in Indian history that spread across multiple states and shook the entire country.
Abdul Karim Telgi was born in Belgaum, Karnataka, on July 29, 1961. His father was an employee at the Indian Railways and passed away when Telgi was young.
Oct 24, 2017 · The Telgi scam or the stamp paper scam is valued at over Rs 3,000 crore. The scam had two aspects – creation of counterfeit documents, and creating a scarcity of authentic documents. Telgi and ...
Oct 26, 2017 · Abdul Karim Telgi, convict in the multi-crore stamp scam died at the Victoria hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday. Born in a small panchayat town of Khanapur in Karnataka, Telgi’s parents were government employees who worked with the Indian Railways. However after the death of his father, Telgi was forced to take up odd jobs and used to sell eatables on trains. Eventually he moved to Saudi Arabia.
Sep 4, 2023 · The Telgi Stamp Paper Scam, also known as the Abdul Karim Telgi Scam, was a large-scale financial fraud in India involving the counterfeiting of stamp papers. Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind behind the scam, produced fake stamp papers and sold them across the country, leading to significant financial losses and widespread legal implications.
Dec 31, 2018 · The Nashik sessions court in Maharashtra today acquitted late Abdul Karim Telgi and seven others in a 2004 multi-crore fake stamp paper case in absence of "solid evidence" against them.
May 26, 2022 · Abdul Karim Telgi started as a fruitseller in Karnataka, Khanapur. He made a fortune out of selling stamp papers in the 80s. But was jailed after six to seven years for the same.
Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind behind the Stamp Paper Scam, also known as the Telgi Scam, orchestrated one of the biggest scams in India’s history, estimated at Rs 30,000 crore. The 2003 scam was exposed by Sanjay Singh, a reporter with NDTV, who wrote a book addressing the underlying questions the incident left behind. Read here to learn ...
May 24, 2022 · Late Abdul Karim Telgi, who was the convict behind the stamp paper scam in 2003 had once showered Rs. 90 lakhs on India's most famous bar dancer and his alleged girlfriend, Tarannum Khan. Find out! The Stamp Paper Scam was uncovered in 2001, and it had taken the entire nation by storm as a fruit seller named, Abdul Karim Telgi had created an ...
Jun 28, 2024 · In a country like ours with limited opportunities even for the privileged, people like Abdul Karim Telgi and Harshad Mehta are heroes. Sadly, public discourse in India is stuck in the moralistic ...
Jun 30, 2024 · In a country like ours with limited opportunities even for the privileged, people like Abdul Karim Telgi and Harshad Mehta are heroes. Sadly, public discourse in India is stuck in the moralistic morass of the 1970s, and for that, I blame the country’s ivory tower intellectuals who keep telling us that scams are bad and scamsters are evil — wrong! We don’t hate scamsters — we give them our savings, defend them on social media, and elect them to public o¯ce. ...
