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Abdul Karim Telgi (29 July 1961 – 23 October 2017) was an Indian counterfeiter. 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 · New Delhi: Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind of the fake stamp paper scam, died at a hospital in Bengaluru today.He was suffering from multiple medical problems including meningitis. Telgi was ...
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 ...
It was a simple, 30-year-old matriculate, who in 1998 sensed something wrong in the dealings of Abdul Karim Telgi, and exposed the kingpin of one of the largest financial scams in India that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aug 6, 2023 · After the success of the 2020 web series Scam 1992, based on the Harshad Mehta scam that came to light in the same year, the trailer of a successor series named Scam 2003 – The Telgi Story has been released on August 4.. As with the 1992 series, it is believed to take a peek at one of India’s most well-known cases of financial fraud, centring Abdul Karim Telgi, who hailed from a village in Karnataka and would go on to mint tens of thousands of crores through ‘stamp scams’. The show ...
