14. Accompanied by
Rs240 million advertising
blitzkrieg with
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar
and
Film stars
Shah Rukh Khan and
Hrithik Roshan
to endorse its portal.
HOME TRADE
17. Under the pretext of gilt trading, almost Rs.600
crores has been swindled from more than 25
cooperative banks
• 13 of them in Maharashtra
• 12 in Gujarat.
HOME TRADE
18. Home Trade
• Home Trade and four of its affiliates lured cooperative
banks with 2 % to 7 % higher returns on investment in
gilts. The brokerage firm claimed to have bought
government securities (G-secs) for the banks.
• When Home Trade defaulted on payments and the loss
of investments began to burn a hole in the pockets of the
Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank, its chairman
Sunil Kedar filed a criminal complaint against Home
Trade for not delivering G-sec certificates worthRs.125
crores. The next day, April 26, the scam
unravelled further as similar complaints poured in from
other parts of Maharashtra.