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UI am unsure. Tomorrow a friend will check with the lawyer in person as I am abroad. According to what I was told, the gold was paid with stolen money, and it should go to usUOh, I think thats what he planned to do on 10th Feb, as thats 30 work days since the order;
Do you know regarding the gold should we also ask for it to be released before that as it will soon be a month and a half after it was “found”, and we are really in a dire situation health wise (and obviously financially).UI meant it in the context of how responsible is the bank. The fact that the banker is in the prison is good, but it is a small sentence.UThank you. the only thing that worries me- cousin got a 6 years sentence, the banker only 8 months for his role. Do you think this changes much?UWill do. Because this banker previously extorted money, locked account to be able to blackmail/extort more money (while uncle had big health issues), and also taking part in the final scam; do you think there could also be some punitive punishment (besides recovering the funds)?UYea, my uncle wasnt really talking about this, but I was thinking about it myself. The bank account is actually still locked (it got locked when the case was reported, and in late december the court ordered it to be unfrozen) and bank was saying first monday in Feb by latest.What happened, but wasnt part of the criminal case, is that this banker extorted money already. He knew the situation, so when uncle withdraw the money from a different city (2 lakhs) he locked the account because of “suspicious activity”. He asked for for 1 lakh which he did get in the end (he locked it twice, even gave some documents to uncle and pressured him to sign it, which should be under bank’s cctv- these documents were about delaying the blockage of the account).
There are two people as witnesses that this happened- one was the person (person A) that gave him the money, and the second one was a person who acted as a middle man to help person A because the banker said “all money or nothing”. There were also unrecorded phone calls- maybe this could be taken from the sim card company?
UThe court date when it was decided he gets the money back and all that happened late in December. Then early in January they had a court date when they were deciding who gets what prison sentence.The reason for not going after the bank- uncle was left without any money with account being blocked + there were debts.. and not long before (related to the people that were guilty here) he had big heart issues and ended up with 5 surgeries which in large I had to finance. He was also embarrassed about it and started the case himself.
So, in simple terms, because this happened only 2-3 months ago, we can still easily go after the bank? Should we hire a lawyer based on direct payment, or offer a % of the recovered funds (if it is an easy win for him)?
