{"id":971260,"date":"2025-11-03T07:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971260"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:15:18","slug":"blackrock-hit-with-breathtaking-fraud-by-indian-origin-telecom-entrepreneur-bankim-brahmbhatt-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/03\/blackrock-hit-with-breathtaking-fraud-by-indian-origin-telecom-entrepreneur-bankim-brahmbhatt-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock hit with \u2018breathtaking\u2019 fraud by Indian-origin telecom entrepreneur Bankim Brahmbhatt: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: HPS Investment Partners, the private-credit unit of BlackRock, and several other global lenders are seeking to recover \u201chundreds of millions of dollars\u201d after they fell to a \u201cbreathtaking\u201d fraud orchestrated by Indian entrepreneur Bankim Brahmbhatt, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Brahmbhatt, the founder of little-known telecom services companies Broadband Telecom and Bridgevoice, has been accused of forging assets and invoices to secure more than $500 million in loans from financiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: HPS Investment Partners, the private-credit unit of BlackRock, and several other global lenders are seeking to recover \u201chundreds of millions of dollars\u201d after they fell to a \u201cbreathtaking\u201d fraud orchestrated by Indian entrepreneur Bankim Brahmbhatt, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Brahmbhatt, the founder of little-known telecom services companies Broadband Telecom and Bridgevoice, has been accused of forging assets and invoices to secure more than $500 million in loans from financiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}