A’bad couple dupe 53 people of 2cr

Rajkot: Gandhigram police booked an Ahmedabad-based couple for siphoning off Rs 1.77 crore of 53 investors by luring them of 22% return on investments. The police booked Rahul Soni and his wife Aditi, residents of Bapunagar in Ahmedabad and having office in Rajkot, based on a complaint filed by one of the victims, Rahul Vaghela.
In his complaint, Vaghela said that he came in contact with the couple through a relative. The accused couple having offices in a commercial complex on 150-feet ring road were posing as sharemarket brokers. Vaghela approached them in December 2022. He met the duo and they told Vaghela that they invest in gold MCX and give 22% return every month. Vaghela first invested Rs 1 lakh and got returns as promised. Then he invested another Rs 4 lakh and got the same returns. Looking at Vaghela’s experience, 53 other people invested a total of Rs 1.77 crore with the Sonis.tnn