1992 Indian stock market scam

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The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Mr Harshad Mehta and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. That scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding investors of over ten million USD.

Techniques used by Mehta involved having corrupt officials signing fake cheques, misusing market loopholes, and fabrication to drive the prices of stocks up to 40 times their original price. Stock traders making good returns as a result of the scam were able to fraudulently obtain unsecured loans from banks. When the scam was discovered in April 1992, the Indian stock market collapsed, and the same banks suddenly found themselves holding millions of Indian rupees (INR) in now useless debt.