Accused In Fake Trust Fund Caught By CID

The Crime Investigation Department arrested a woman who was accused in a multi-crore cheating case of a fake Missionary institution.

The arrested woman, Sukanya, is the third accused in the case against the Heavenly Interdenominal Mission Trust.

She also happens to be the wife of main accused John Prabhakar alias Malinga Prabhakar, who was already arrested by the CID in the year 2011.

She was treasurer of the Trust and was at large since the registration of the cases.

According to Additional DGP (CID) T Krishna Prasad, in the year 2006, an organization called Heavenly Interdenominal Mission Trust (HIM) was started under thechairmanship of John Prabhakar at Chennai. It fed the gullible public some hogwash saying that if they deposit some amount with the said Trust, they would get six times the deposited amount in 11 months, from the money that would be invested from the Christian missionaries in western countries.

Prabhakar appointed various agents in Tamil Nadu as well as in Andhra Pradesh.

In the scheme, if a person paid Rs 1,000 he would get Rs.6,000 and if he paid Rs 10,500, he would get Rs 60,000.

It has been revealed that many agents participated in the scheme and got commissions.

For one or two months the victims got refunds but after collection of crores of rupees, the main accused, John Prabhakar, went underground. Several such cases of fraud were registered across the country.

In Andhra Pradesh, 36 cases were registered against the Trust, out of which 6 were taken over by the CID for further investigations.

While the main accused, John Prabhakar, was arrested in 2001, his wife, Sukanya, was arrested on Friday at Chandragiri near Tirupathi. She has been remanded to judicial custody.

The Additional DGP has cautioned the public not to invest in such schemes that are being run in the name of Missionaries. In fact, he cautioned that participating in such schemes would be tantamount to being cited as accused and punishable under provisions of Prize Chits & Money Circulations Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. (INN)