How My Own Cousin Hijacked Our Family Business & Left Us in Financial Ruin.

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      Utkarshmaster783
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        April 2, 2025 at 12:43 am
        Two years ago, my father invested everything into a retail company, helping set up 10 stores and mentoring my cousin—who is two years older than me—on how to run the business. Since I was a student abroad, I had no direct involvement, leaving my cousin in full control.

        Initially, he reassured my father that a ₹1.6 crore deposit from the brand partner was pending. Over time, this number mysteriously shrank—first to ₹80 lakh, then to ₹60 lakh. After months of avoiding calls and giving vague responses, he now claims there was never any deposit at all. Instead, we received a legal notice from the brand’s lawyer demanding ₹1.2 crore from our company.

        While my father built steady rental income in his town to secure the company’s future, my cousin exploited it under the pretense of financial distress, draining even fixed profits and exhausting security deposits. Meanwhile, he was diverting store rental income into his personal account, all while falsely claiming the business was struggling.

        To make matters worse, he secretly transferred the company’s registered office lease to his personal business—along with interiors, furniture, and air-conditioning—without compensating the company. We only discovered this when we visited the office for a financial review. When confronted, he provided fake documents, then fled to another city when pressed further.All the company MOU and net banking passwords or check power was held by him solely never signed a check only signed the lease agreements for rental income as these properties were in my town.

        Now, tenants are demanding refunds, landlords have withheld deposits due to unpaid dues, and our company is being dragged into legal disputes—all while my cousin continues to cover his tracks. I need legal advice on how to expose his fraud and protect our interests before it’s too late. How should I proceed?

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        Salonipanther485
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          April 2, 2025 at 2:17 am
          Which city?

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            April 2, 2025 at 3:00 am
            Hire a good lawyer. This issue is above Reddit’s paygrade.

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              Amritaknight866
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                April 2, 2025 at 3:40 am
                Free grade, you mean?

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                  April 2, 2025 at 10:13 am
                  # #Mahabharat | who says is not relevant takes?

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                  April 2, 2025 at 4:18 am
                  Which city?

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                    April 2, 2025 at 4:55 am
                    Rishtedaar/ mitra etc ko dhande me ghusaaane ka nahi. Employee rakhne ka aur employee ke tatto pe 24 ghante bhaar rakhne ka. Tabhi kaam krega.

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                        April 2, 2025 at 8:00 am
                        Bhai so many successful businesses in India are run by family but I get your point

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                        April 2, 2025 at 5:13 am
                        A lot of what you’re saying cant happen without your father knowledge.

                        I mean if he didn’t even bother to check his bank account statement and blindly signed documents for address change of his company – at some point it goes beyond naivety and reaches levels of self-harm.

                        Your father and you fucked up here big time.

                        This will be a life long mess of litigation and threats of violence and violence and fake allegations and FIRs and court cases.

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                            April 2, 2025 at 11:51 am
                            what if his cousin cloned his fathers signature?

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                                April 2, 2025 at 12:31 pm
                                Yup possible.

                                But understand that is one of MANY things that are being claimed in the post including taking money out of bank accounts and fixed deposits.

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                                April 2, 2025 at 12:11 pm
                                He didn’t sign the address change my cousins did without our approval

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                                    April 2, 2025 at 12:16 pm
                                    Not possible if it is a pvt ltd. Even if it’s a partnership you need signatures at multiple places of all partners.

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                                    April 2, 2025 at 12:45 pm
                                    It’s not your father & you, it’s your father fucked up. Old people, especially Indian men have a massive ego problem & massive low brain problem. If someone comes & butters them, they literally become their slaves. And see God & everything in them. And then the vultures exploit. Then it becomes the problem of everyone else but them.

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                                    April 2, 2025 at 5:32 am
                                    Buddy in business you never ever believe in your relatives or friends. Anyways, you should let everyone here know how deeply involved your father was in operations. Also, finding a damn good lawyer is top priority

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                                      April 2, 2025 at 9:23 am
                                      Is your father blind? Did he not check bank statements at all? Something else is going on idc what you say.

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                                          April 2, 2025 at 12:11 pm
                                          Hey man, My father is one gullible person who is soley focused on operations and expansions and doesnt go into wicket keeping accounts etc. He is also very orthodox when it comes to families and has blind trust

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                                              April 2, 2025 at 1:00 pm
                                              No sane businessman will ever ignore his balance sheets. Blind trust is okay; but not seeing balance sheets and other accounts?? Impossible for a business owner

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                                                  April 2, 2025 at 1:03 pm
                                                  We requested for balance sheets he used to send in the start and over time stopped sending stopped picking up my dads calls in the start he used an excuse ki was busy later on stopped giving and excuse even then stopped picking up all together

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                                              April 2, 2025 at 11:52 am
                                              if there are fake document you might need to get a graphologist, some documents where there are suspiciousness. i guess you might be able to file 420 as well based on those report. this is only for info purpose only. all those thing you need still need to prove it. collect all the written proofs as much as possible. i dont know why he is ruining a well settled life ? or i guess you or your father have done something that you dont told here.

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                                                April 2, 2025 at 12:13 pm
                                                When Approached and asked for third party audit the guy flees and whenever we make elders sit his dad gets violent and leaves the room

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                                                  April 2, 2025 at 1:03 pm
                                                  We live in different cities and hence its hard to get

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