Torres jewellery scam: GM Taniya Xasatova was detained with 69 lakh unaccounted cash during Maharashtra assembly polls | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: In the multi-crore Torres jewellery scam, police have now found that the company’s general manager, Taniya Xasatova alias Tazagul Karaxanovna Xasatova, was detained with unaccounted cash of Rs 69 lakh during a nakabandi at Dongri during the November assembly elections.
Xasatova is now in police custody along with a few others for cheating investors promising lucrative returns.The Dongri police during election bandobast with Election Commission officials intercepted Kastova’s car and found Rs 69 lakh in cash. Kastova, claiming to be a senior official of Torres Company and a foreign national, failed to provide documentation to substantiate her possession of the cash. According to officials, a diary entry was made, and the Income Tax Department was informed, but no further action was pursued at the time.
Xasatova, who has reportedly been in India since 2006, was previously arrested by the Sahar police in 2008 in a Rs 77-lakh cheating case. The Mumbai police are now revisiting old case files to determine the status of that investigation and whether it has links to the current scam.
Meanwhile, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), which is leading the investigation, issued six additional Look-Out Circulars (LOCs) on Friday against foreign nationals suspected of involvement in the scheme. This brings the total LOCs in the case to 11. On Friday, police issued six LOCs against suspects including Olena Stoian, a Ukrainian national. Stoian (33) was earlier a director in the company.
Police are going to write to the foreigners regional registration office (FRRO) asking for the details of the foreigner suspects’ travel history.