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Nanban Ventures LLC
Gopala Krishnan (aka GK), Manivannan Shanmugam, Sakthivel Palani Gounder
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- Company / entity
- Nanban Ventures LLC
- Industry
- Venture capital funds and options trading ("GK Strategies")
- How investors were recruited
- Affinity fraud targeting the Indian American community; "Nanban" branding; YouTube videos
- Pitch & red flags
- Krishnan claimed returns of "more than a hundred percent" in YouTube videos; funds would "consistently overperform the S&P 500 Index"
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