{"id":33501,"date":"2014-05-29T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:36:10","slug":"amway-ceo-khammam-pc-nine-cases-across-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/amway-ceo-khammam-pc-nine-cases-across-ap","title":{"rendered":"Amway CEO in Khammam PC; nine cases across AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/amway-india-ceo-arrested-remanded-jc\/amway-india-ceo\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33478\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33478\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/amway-india-ceo-arrested-remanded-jc\/amway-india-ceo\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO.jpg?fit=311%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"311,162\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amway India CEO\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO.jpg?fit=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33478 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO-300x156.jpg?resize=300%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amway India CEO\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO.jpg?resize=150%2C78&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Amway-India-CEO.jpg?w=311&amp;ssl=1 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Khammam police in Andhra Pradesh took Amway India CEO William Scott Pinckney into custody today following registration of a case against the direct selling company.<\/p>\n<p>Amway is facing nine criminal cases at various places in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>A court in Kurnool district also rejected Pinckney&#8217;s bail petition and granted his five-day remand to Kurnool police while the Punjagutta police registered yet another case against him.<\/p>\n<p>Howver, before Kurnool police could take his custody, the Khammam Police obtained a production warrant from a court in Khammam and furnished it to the Kadapa jail authorities this evening. A complaint has been filed against Amway by one G Rama Rao in Khammam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have taken him (Pinckney) into custody from Kadapa prison&#8230;.He will be produced before a court in Khammam district,&#8221; a senior police official told PTI late this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kurnool Superintendent of Police (SP) Raghurami Reddy said they will seek Pinckney&#8217;s custody from Khammam police by producing the Kurnool court&#8217;s order. &#8220;We may lose one day (of custodial interrogation period) in this process,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police were permitted to take him (Pinckney) into five-day custody from tomorrow (by Kurnool court). It (the Amway business) is going on for the past several years. We need to find out the details about the company&#8217;s revenues and mode of operations,&#8221; the police official told PTI over phone from Kurnool.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a complaint alleging financial irregularities in Amway&#8217;s operations, Pinckney was arrested in Gurgaon by the Kurnool Police. He was produced before a court<\/p>\n<p>yesterday which sent him to Kadapa district jail on a judicial remand.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a complaint of cheating was registered against Amway in Punjagutta police station in Hyderabad by a local organisation today, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) V Satyanarayana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The matter has been forwarded to the legal cell seeking its opinion as no victim has come forward with regard to the complaint&#8230;.the victim has to come forward and tell about the alleged wrongful loss caused by the multi-marketing business run by the company,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amway faces criminal complaints in Guntur, Vijayawada, Prakasam, Khammam, Warangal and Medak. In addition, there are three cases in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the CID had registered a criminal case against Amway in 2006. The company approached High Court seeking a declaration that its marketing scheme does not fall under the provisions of `The Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978&#8242;.<\/p>\n<p>But the HC held that the scheme is an illegal `Money Circulation Scheme&#8217; and falls within the definition of mischief as described in the Act.<\/p>\n<p>The company got no relief from the Supreme Court either, as per the police.<\/p>\n<p>(Source; PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khammam police in Andhra Pradesh took Amway India CEO William Scott Pinckney into custody today following registration of a case against the direct selling company. Amway is facing nine criminal cases at various places in Andhra Pradesh. 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