Fraudster Tales – Vijay Narayan Govind

Description

In Fraudster Tales, twelve true-life stories of financial frauds perpetrated in India and around the world by some of history’s most cunning con artists come to life. These true-crime accounts, presented in an approachable storytelling style, are sure to appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those who enjoy reading business stories. The book also includes two Indian stories, one of which is included here as a sample chapter about Haridas Mundhra, a small-time stockbroker from Calcutta who took to the stock market and steadily made large acquisitions of former British estates and companies to become one of the country’s largest industrialists. The subject of the second Indian story is Natwarlal, a well-known twentieth-century con artist who used several aliases to defraud people in India. Fraudster Tales thus presents compulsive, well-researched accounts of notable financial fraudsters in history.