Torres Jewellery Ponzi Scam:'Never Worked As GM, Instead Victim,' Says Tania Kastoa In Bail Plea

Tania Kastoa alias Tazagul Karaxanovna Xasatova, an Uzbek national and the alleged general manager and Dadar store in-charge at Torres, has moved a bail plea. The accused claimed that she herself is a victim as she invested Rs8 lakh into the company's scheme.

In the plea, filed by her lawyers Samsher Garud and Atharva Gade, Tania said that she has been in India since 2007 and even got married here. “She has been wrongly shown as the general manager by some local manager, who was involved in the scam,” read her plea. It asserted that the blame was put on her as she was a foreign national and that there is no documentary proof to corroborate the charge.

Tania said that she had been working in India as an interpreter or translator for “Russian friends” in India. She claimed that in 2024, Torres hired her as an interpreter on a daily basis as its owners are Russian while the investors Indians. “The accused company, M/s Platinum Hern Pvt Ltd, was having an office in Dadar and the applicant had visited the premises once or twice for the purposes of interpretation,” read the plea. She was never employed there or accepted any cash from any investors whatsoever, it added.

The court has now asked prosecution file a reply.