Royal Indian Raj Complaints & Reviews

Ravi Benjamin & wife Sherri Vaters & two sons Pierce & Yael have sold their Gravely St property in Vancouver for over $800,000.00 They are now looking to sell their other property at 5488 Smith Ave in Burnaby, Vancouver for over 1 million dollars. Sherri Vaters (Ravi’s wife) has been the bookkeeper and secretary for “Royal Indian Raj”since 1999, while Ravi has been selling villas for Royal Indian Raj’s “RGvillas” since 2005. Seven years later and no build. Ravi Benjamin has also been selling shares in the company since 1999. My family, myself and many of my friends all invested heavily 13 years ago. To date (August 2012), none o[censored]s have had one penny returned. We’re asking everyone who has given them money over the past 13 years, to please share/post any updates so we can try to keep track of our money.

http://www.mariofelicella.com/Blog.php/2704-graveley-street-vancouver-east-briti...⇄

http://www.realestatechannel.ca/listing/22194/5488-Smith-Ave/Brian-Vidas

TO ALL RGVILLAS CUSTOMERS,

I am customer with Royal India Raj and have invested a lot of money with there rgvillas project which I doubt will ever take of. I bought the property Medina in 2006 when the company was promoting Vijay Amritraj heavily. Being naive I got sucked into buying the property and paid the money in full to avail the 30% discount. Now there is no Amritraj/Nickalaus/Steven Seagal and the company is even banned...

My goodness, another "corporate statement" from the scamsters at Royal Indian Fraud. Curiously, the two leading scamsters, Manoj Benjamin and Ravi Benjamin, never sign their names. They hide behind their "corporate statements" like the cowards they are. Come on out Manoj and face the music. I notice that you haven't mentioned in any of your "corporate statements" how you have refused to return monies to customers who have, per their contracts with Royal Indian Raj, requested refunds. And I noticed nowhere in your "corporate statement" have you mentioned that you are now banned, per government decree, from marketing in British Columbia.

I assume you're going to file a lawsuit against the government agency that banned you since that is your offical corporate response to anyone who stands up to you and describes you for what you are - a scam artist.

I am a customer with RIRIC and got sucked into buying a property (flat type Medina) at their RGVILLAS project in Bangalore around August/September of 2006 when Vijay Amrita was actively promoting the property. Till date I have not seen anything built and now the company and its owners are refusing to return my money. My refund was due back in Dec 21 2008 as per my contract. I had even hired a lawyer to send the demand letter and the company did not respond. The truth is the money is gone and I have been scammed.

I am currently looking for customers who have invested more than $100, 000 USD into the RGVILLAS (www.rgvillas.com) project to buy a property (flat or villa) to join me in a law suit against the company and the perpetrators of the scam.

Any customers reading this and would want to join my group please respond via email to me at [protected]@yahoo.com or dhiraj.[protected]@gmail.com. We both are customers who have been scammed by this company and trying to get back our money and law suit is the only option left now. Dhiraj Tyagi has already gone public against the RIRIC via his interview with David Baines of Vancouver times. The article is published at http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=1d8f8cf1-d9cb-40fb-...⇄

I am appealing to all who have been scammed by RIRIC and have lost their hard earned money please join me in this law suit. This is the only viable option left now. Don’t get swayed by this company’s grandiose promises. They are just buying time to scam more unsuspecting customers like us.

--sujoy

For those wishing to view proof of the tactics of RIRIC, hard evidence of their “business style” has been provided for you compliments of RIRIC themselves, and right here on this complaints board. If you wish to take the time to conduct a simple search of your own on the following, you can view the evidence and then draw your own conclusions.

When you conduct a topic search in the search box in the upper right hand...

I am an customer with RIRIC and got sucked into buying a property (flat type Medina) at their RGVILLAS project in Bangalore around August of 2006 when Vijay Amritraj was promoting the property. Till date I have not seen anything built and now the company and its owners are refusing to return my money. My refund was due back in Dec 21 2008 per my contract. The truth is that the money is gone and I have been scammed.

I am currently looking for customers who have invested more than $100K USD into the RGVILLAS (www.rgvillas.com) project to buy a property (flat or villa) to join me in a law suit against the company and there board of directors.

Any customers reading this and would want to join in the law suit please respond via email at [protected]@yahoo.com or dhiraj.[protected]@gmail.com

In reference to a post by Ravi Benjamin located on the India Complaints board:

http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/royal-indian-raj-c151460.html#commen...⇄

I'm further perplexed how Ravi Benjamin can claim "No investigations...nothing." in reference to rg villas and royal indian raj international corporation.

It logically follows that since Ravi Benjamin has been the primary salesman who has sold, by far, the most units out of any salesperson operating out of the riric Vancouver BC office for royal garden villas and resort rgvillas.com -- now inexplicably renamed royalvillasandresort.com -- he would have surely been informed of the following:

"Last week, FICOM issued a cease-and-desist order under the B.C. Real Estate Development Marketing Act against Royal Indian Raj, Benjamin, and several related companies."

The above is an excerpt from a David Baines article dated today -- March 11th, 2009. Since the cease-and-desist order was issued last week, it therefore must have been issued no later than Friday March 6th, 2009 at the absolute latest. As Ravi made his claim of "no investigations" on March 9th, 2009, something here just isn't adding up. How could an investigative body issue an order if no investigation were underway? And since it is the policy of FICOM to contact the party under investigation to question them, doesn't it seem extraordinarily unlikely that Ravi Benjamin -- the lead salesman -- had no idea that an investigation was underway?

Note: FICOM stands for Financial Institutions Commission: http://www.fic.gov.bc.ca/

Below is the link to the David Baines article, which also points out the fact that "So far, the B.C. Securities Commission has done nothing relating to the sale of shares". Now why would Baines make such a statement if the BCSC weren't conducting an investigation?

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Neither+here+Ayre+Bodog+founder+posh+condo+...⇄ -- scroll down to the 3rd update story beginning with the paragraph:

" Readers may recall that I have been ragging on a pileup-in-progress called Royal Indian Raj International Corp., which purports to be developing multi-billion-dollar "smart cities" in India. "

Sharon Dobson

Royal Indian Raj International Corporation – Court cases – Fraud and Embezzlement, Manoj C Benjamin, Collins Benjamin, Ravi Benjamin. Past history shows that usually the Benjamins have long disappeared with the money by the time anyone becomes aware that they have been scammed.

The Benjamins know from past scams that only a small fraction of victims file claims, so it is profitable to pay off that small fraction...

Impressive news release probably about as far as this lotto scheme will get

A bafflegab-prone Vancouver company is at it again
David Baines, Vancouver Sun
Published: March 28, 2007

Royal Indian Raj International Corp. has a very grandiose name and issues very grandiose press releases, but its real purpose has always baffled me. Consider this corporate summary:
“Royal Indian Raj International...