Thousands of small investors across the economically challenged Kingdom of Jordan have been struck by disbelief, despair and self-pity as they heard of the domino-like collapse of firms they had trusted with their life savings.

Nearly $2 billion of hard-earned money was siphoned off from the pockets of tens of thousands of ordinary citizens on promises of making big bucks in a short period of time.

Amateur investors were lured by companies that claimed to be dealing with foreign exchanges, including speculative foreign currency, oil, gold and other items, promising staggering monthly returns of between 10-25 percent. “Some of these firms were genuine but the majority were bogus,” said Companies’ Comptroller Sabr Rawashdeh a few days after he referred some of the firms to the State Security Court for trial on suspicion of fraud. The rest of the story

 تعليقات القراء - التعليقات المنشورة تعبر عن آراء كاتبيها ولا تعبر بالضرورة عن رأي الموقع - لن ننشر أراء غير بناءة أو هادفة

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