mumbai the economic offences wing eow of the city police has registered a case against a husbandwife duo who posed as directors of an investment company and cheated thousands of investors across the country sixteen bank accounts in which investors had deposited over rs 125 crore have been frozen sources in the eow identified the suspects as ravindra deshmukh and his wife vasuda deshmukh both directors of arya rup travel and club resort a mumbaibased businessman arun salunkhe lodged a complaint saying that he had been lured with a promise of returns between 87 and 96 on his investment in the company he invested lakhs of rupees and for a while the company did pay him some amount but all of a sudden they stopped making payments said an officer the police have so far received cheating complaints amounting to rs 81 lakh the suspects had opened branches in various parts of haryana gujarat and other states in maharashtra they started their company in buldana nashik nanded thane navi mumbai mumbai parbhani jalgaon bhusawal pune and latur among others there were more than 15000 investors in the company said an eow officerthe duo used to ask the victim to invest any amount more than rs 5000 for a travel and club resort moreover the investor was told that he was entitled to additional profit if he brought more investors if the investor brought more investors he was told that he was entitled for additional profit the company also floated other schemes we are still receiving complaints from various parts of the country said the officer the duo had two rented offices in mumbai after the complaint was made when the police reached these offices it was found that the offices were shut and had been rented for some time the police then reached the duos pune bungalow but it too had been let out on rent and the accused had fled by then he saidthe company also had a website through which it opened accounts for its investors had its website and opened accounts for its investors the accused allotted login names and passwords to the investors and said that their profit would automatically be transferred into their accounts the web site has been blocked now