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STATEMENT BY PROFITABLE PLOTS PTE LTD (PP)

9th February 2012

RAJ CHOTRANI (RC)

February 2004

RC starts a partnership with his wife Hulya Ucer called ‘Analytical Insights’ – www.analytical-insights.com As a partnership in Singapore he is not required to submit any annual returns or accounts.

 

Both introductory and home pages of his website contains the word guarantee 6 times. His terms and conditions however state: “Analytical Insights does not provide warranties, representations, or endorsements whatsoever, express or implied, including warranties of title or non-infringement, or warranties of merchant ability or fitness for a particular purpose. Analytical Insights shall not be liable for any cost or damage resulting from the services it provides”.


His website states that confidentiality is assured. “You’re assured that all work we do for you will be held in strict confidence. We do not sell or give away names and contact details of our clients.”


His bio states (among other things) :

“Raj studied at Oxford, the United Kingdom, and at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government in the United States. Interestingly, he took a year off university to backpack through Africa and the Middle East, during which he also had a six-month work stint on an Israeli farm, where he harvested tomatoes, watermelons, and onions.”

 

RC also has a Facebook page. On this, he doesn’t mention that he studied at Oxford or Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government. He lists as one of his interests ‘Tanjong Katong Secondary Technical School’ in Singapore.

 

His company website features a bio of Huyla and states (among other things) :

“Hulya has more than 15 years of professional experience in the private and public sectors, developing international investment projects for a diversity of industries including health services, transportation, telecommunications, power development, and water treatment. She is therefore well-versed in the preparation of information memoranda, the assessment of project and country risk, the analysis of financial models, cash flow projections, and market research. Hulya is also skilled in negotiating investment contracts, which has seen her collaborating with the world’s leading international financial institutions and law firms, including the World Bank and the OECD. She has also served on the project finance team of Swedish-Swiss infrastructure developer, ABB, in Switzerland and Turkey. Hulya has also written and researched a business development program for a Singapore-based dotcom that specialized in providing secure collaborative documentation solutions for large projects.”

October 2005

RC attends a presentation by PP, decides he is happy with the products and purchases 1 plot of land priced at £13,000. He eventually pays for it over 2 months later, well in excess of the normal payment period.

August 2006

RC decides to purchase again, this time a plot for £20,000. He pays over a month later.

June 2007

RC sells his £20,000 for £22,500 and makes a profit of £2,500.

RC sells his first plot for £13,500 and makes a profit of £500.

June 2007

RC purchases 11 plots at Concorde Village for £4,063 each – a total of £44,693. He takes advantage of an existing owners discount as well as a bulk discount. The normal price of the plots is £61,875. He receives a discount of £17,182 on his purchase. 

October 2007

RC makes a further purchase, once again taking advantage of existing owner and bulk discounts. He purchases 5 plots at Concorde Village for £20,000, a discount of £8,125. 

April 2008

RC purchases 2 more plots for £13,000 each.

June 2008

RC sells 4 of the plots he purchased @ £4,063, for £8,000 each, a profit of £15,748 or a 96.89% profit on his purchase in less than 12 months.

RC purchases 3 plots for £13,000 each and again pays the balance some 2 months later.

RC commences legal proceedings against his own family in Australia over assets he wishes to inherit from his late Father.

May 2010

The Analytical Insights partnership is cancelled with ACRA in Singapore. RC leaves the website running, which it still is today. There is no mention on the website that the partnership has been cancelled and the business does not exist any more.

RC's profile on LinkedIn still states to this day that he is: 'Owner, Analytical Insights and Writing and Editing Consultant".

RC approaches PP and explains his family owns land in Turkey and asks if PP would sub-divide it into plots and sell it for him. PP explains that they do not believe that land in Turkey at that time would be particularly attractive to clients and turn down his offer.

June 2010

RC starts a blog called ‘Victims of Profitable Plots’. The blog publishes numerous entries which are heavily critical of, and defamatory to, PP.

July 2010

RC receives £16,250 from PP in payments linked to his purchases. He still owns the same number of plots. Despite having started a blog called ‘Victims of Profitable Plots’ just the month before, RC decides to purchase another plot from PP this time for £18,888. He pays the £16,250 he has received from PP but never pays the balance of £2,638. He never visits the PP offices again.

August 2010

CAD raids the offices of PP removing all client files, among other documents 

Dec 2010

RC tells other PP clients via email that he has met CAD but he is under strict orders from CAD not to discuss the contents of the discussion with anyone. He says if info leaks it will only help the other side. He promises to give a bigger picture in January and assures them that the Lord is with them.

February 2011

RC sends an email to all PP clients worldwide, including Canadians.

Canadian clients who have received the email demand to know how RC obtained their private contact information which is a Federal Offence in Canada.

PP confirms that all client files are currently in the possession of CAD and PP Singapore didn’t, indeed couldn’t, have supplied the private contact details of clients to RC.

March 2011

PP’s representatives, Syndications Canada (SC) engages lawyers in Singapore who demand RC stop using the confidential client information; return it; destroy it; and detail how and where he got it.

April 2011

RC agrees to tell how and where he got the information.

RC then says he won’t say anything and engages legal representation.

RC approaches Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) for assistance to investigate PP.

‘Victims of Profitable Plots’ are adopted as a formal sub-committee of SIAS.

RC writes to SC telling them to back off and threatens action by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) if they don’t.

OSC issue a cease and desist order on SC.

May 2011

RC goes to the private residence of a PP Singapore client, identifies himself; reveals he is aware of purchases this client has made with PP; says he can arrange for a journalist to interview him immediately and also offers to escort him to a local police station if he would like to file a complaint. The client refuses and calls PP immediately to report the incident.

October 2011

RC lawyers tell SC they have to lodge $40,000 with a court.

SC lawyers reply that courts make decision on costs not them.

RC lawyers say they are ready for trial.

RC lawyers then say they are ready to settle and wish to meet.

PP Singapore's lawyers write to RC demanding that he stop using client personal information and disclose where he got this information from. They also demand he reveal where he got information relating to PP's business.

November 2011

RC lawyers confirm RC has got email information of all PP clients as well as other information they have advised him not to put into an affidavit.

RC lawyers then inform SC lawyers they have fresh instructions from their client. RC denies all knowledge of everything.

January 2012

PP write to RC lawyers demanding that he remove his defamatory bog ‘Victims of Profitable Plots’.  RC lawyers respond that the contents are not his responsibility.

 

Anybody wishing to contact Raj Chotrani can do so as follows:

 

Addresses                                           Telephone Numbers

Analytical Insights                              +65 98533009

32 Maxwell Road                               +65 63449618

#03-07 White House

Singapore 069115

4 Amber Road

#09-01

Amber Towers

Singapore 439852

Please note: This information was obtained from the website of Raj Chotrani and the WHOIS information for his website, all publicly available information.

As Raj Chotrani has stated that PP client information is not confidential and can be used by anybody, he would clearly have no objection to his information being made publicly available. Please click here for a copy of the client information held on Raj Chotrani by PP.

 

Special Note: Raj Chotrani, who runs the blog 'Victims of Profitable Plots’; who heads the 'Official Sub-Committee' of SIAS; who has encouraged all PP clients to make complaints; who went to a client's house to try to get them to make a complaint; HAS NOT MADE A COMPLAINT TO CAD HIMSELF. PP have received no complaint supplied by CAD with his name on.