Controversies
In May 2007 The International Herald Tribune reported his arrest on an Interpol warrant. A dispute in Manila, Philippines filed by two former partners of the original founding team was escalated to an alleged ‘offence’ leading to an Interpol Red alert listing of four directors. These included the two main founders, Vijay Eswaran, who was then Group Managing Director and Joseph ‘Japa’ Bismark, Founding Director. The case was fought out substantially in the courts of Manila and Jakarta. After spending three weeks in jail, Indonesian courts released him; a Manila court dismissed the charge soon afterward.
In May 2008, newspaper reports in India alleged that he was involved in an investor scam in Chennai, involving his previously owned and managed company GoldQuest. In 2008, the Chennai Police announced they are speeding up the process to get Vijay Eswaran extradited from Malaysia. So far only the company's India head, Pushpam Apala Naidu and two directors, Augustine and Dandapani, have been named in the seven cases filed.
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