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KASARGOD: Kasaragod police arrested a key accused in the multi-crore pyramid scheme run through an Android app called My Club Trades (MCT). Muhammed Faisal, 32, the third accused in the case, was arrested as soon as he landed in Bengaluru from a Gulf country, said Kasaragod DySP P Balakrishnan Nair. He had fled the country soon after Manjeshwar police registered a case of cheating in May 2021. My Club Trades or MCT, which its website says has an office in Bangkok, took deposits from people across Kerala, Karnataka, the UAE and in Thailand by promising preposterous returns of 264% to 475% in a year, he said. Read more : https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2022/jun/14/cops-nab-main-accused-in-multi-crore-deposit-scam-2465275.html

  The PSI recruitment scam has taken a new twist with nine MLAs of all the three parties including the ruling BJP batting for honest candidates. They have written a letter to home minister Araga Jnanendra to give appointment orders to the candidates who wrote the examinations honestly. Six of the nine MLAs, who have written letters to home minister are from the BJP. Among the remaining three, two are from the Congress while one is from the JD (S). BJP MLAs P Rajiv, Sunil B Naika, K Raghupati Bhat, Rajkumar Patil Telkura, Lalaji R Mendon, Harish Poonja, Congress MLAs J N Ganesh, K Raghavendra Hitnal and K S Lingesh of JD (S) are the ones who have written the letter. In the letter, the MLAs said, “Scientific technology can be used to detect the candidates who have committed fraud. It is not right to do injustice to many honest candidates because of a few cheaters. It is the duty of the government to protect them. So instead of holding a re-examination, appointment orders should be gi...