Entries for the ‘Speak Asia Online’ Category

Speak Asia’s lawsuit against R K Laxman Ki Dunya

“The Common Man” is a character created by R.K. Laxman that features in the cartoon series ‘You Said It’. Laxman was born in 1921 and considered to be India’s greatest ever cartoonist. For over a half of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the average [...]

Tarak Bajpai refused anticipatory bail, again.

Way back in October of last year, Speak Asia COO Tarak Bajpai and his buddy Rajiv Mehotra (business partner of Speak Asia CEO Manoj Kumar, on the management team of Seven Rings International, listed as a director of Tulsient Technologies (Kumar’s private business) and “assistant for daily portal operations and incharge of regular pop-ups” guy [...]

SpeakAsia & Mister Colibri founders linked in 2007

Much has been made of the links between the two scams Mister Colibri and Speak Asia. Mister Colibri is a recruitment scam currently operating in Brazil that was founded by Seven Rings International, funded by founders Manoj Kumar and Elia de Prisco (named as primary investors and co-founders by Mister Colibri members). Manoj Kumar today [...]

SpeakAsia domain suspended for invalid information

For as long as I’ve we’ve been following Speak Asia, their domain registration data has always stated that the company’s office are in Singapore. As of a few days ago, the domain whois registration data for speakasiaonline.com was listed as Speakasia Online Pte. Ltd. 71 Bukit Batok Crescent #10-08 Prestige, Si 65807 Telephone: +65.91234567 Fax: [...]

Manoj Kumar listed as co-founder of Mister Colibri

Back in early December of last year, I was contacted by a Brazilian national who was concerned over the MLM company ‘Mister Colibri’ and the similarities it appeared to have with the AdMatrix. The AdMatrix being a scam run by Seven Rings International that paid members to watch Youtube videos and paid out commissions on [...]

EOW confirm Bajpai on the run, move to cancel bail

“Tarak Bajpai has disappeared and we don’t know where he is.” I am sure it cannot be an officer from the EOW (who said this), as they will not make such wrong comments. Ashok Bahirwani, AISPA Secretary (currently on the run from the EOW) Tarak Bajpai is in Mumbai under the gaze of the EOW. [...]

ED lodge money laundering case against Speak Asia

Earlier this evening it was observed that the Supreme Court had received former Justice Ramesh Lahoti’s report following the conclusion of the Lahoti Committee. Setting a hearing date of January 9th, many Speak Asia panelists have deluded themselves into thinking this is some kind of final judgement on the business operations of Speak Asia. Whilst [...]

Looking back at Manoj Kumar’s 2011 promises

I’ve been following Speak Asia for a while now on BehindMLM, and whilst the coverage has mostly been negative, as expected when you’re dealing with a ponzi scheme, there have been moments of positivity. These moments have come mostly in the form of YouTube video releases from Speak Asia’s CEO Manoj Kumar. Promising a wide [...]

Speak Asia CEO Manoj Kumar’s lame Dec 27th excuses

A few people have been wanting to link the December 27th Speak Asia CEO Manoj Kumar YouTube video but apart from the original comment on here, I’ve been nuking the others. The video Kumar uploaded was in Hindi and being an English language blog, there wasn’t really all much to discuss. Since the video was uploaded [...]

EOW’s Speak Asia investigation updates, Dec 2012

For much of December we’ve been wondering what India’s EOW have been up to and how their criminal investigation into Speak Asia has been progressing. As it stands now the last we’d heard was that they’d arrested AISPA President Melvin Crasto and Speak Asia’s acting COO, Ashish Dandekar, and were holding them in custody, suspecting [...]