Actor Shreyas Talpade, along with 14 others, has been named in a large-scale fraud case in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly scamming villagers out of crores of rupees through a deceptive chit-fund scheme.
The accused were reportedly associated with The Loni Urban Multistate Credit and Thrift Cooperative Society Limited, a company that lured rural investors with promises of doubling their money in a short time. Agents of the company convinced hundreds of villagers to invest substantial sums, only for the firm to abruptly shut down and its representatives to vanish after amassing a fortune.
The scam had been running for nearly a decade before coming under legal scrutiny. Authorities have registered a case at the Srinagar police station and launched an investigation to determine the full extent of the fraud.
This isn’t the first time Talpade’s name has surfaced in financial fraud cases. In February, an FIR was filed against him and veteran actor Alok Nath in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar Police Station for allegedly deceiving investors of over ₹9 crore. Both actors were also linked to a multi-level marketing scam in Sonipat, Haryana.
Meanwhile, The Loni Urban Multi-State Credit and Thrift Cooperative Society have been involved in similar fraudulent activities across multiple states. In Uttarakhand, the company operated 35 unauthorized branches, scamming investors of nearly ₹92 crore. Several arrests have already been made in connection with that case.
With investigations ongoing, authorities are working to bring justice to the victims and unravel the full scale of the scam.
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