What would happen to your startup company if your venture capital or angel investor is charged with fraud?

If you are simply an 'investment' of the Fraudster, your biggest problem is the money. If your investor is forced to spend a lot of money on legal defense, give back a bunch of money, or didn't have any money to begin with, you are out of luck! You will not receive any more money if you have received any at all.

If you received money from your investor, you may be asked to return it. An attorney would be able to help you with the question of whether you have any liability here. If your investor is using your company as a front for fraudulent activities, whether you know about them or not, your company will be involved in the legal proceedings.

You will probably join in the flurry of law suits to protect your company. You will sue your investor and counter sue anyone who has sued you. However, if you are CEO you are expected to know what is happening in your company.

If it is being used as a front, you may well have liability. If you have any doubts about your investors, make sure you contact an attorney or private investigator to do a thorough check.

This website is a money making scheme. They initial services are free and then they force you to pay $250 to create a CV or remain jobless. This is not fair, this is fraud, the are cheating people out of the money they rather use to survive in the countries that $250 really matter.

I have found out the owners name, its Rabea Ataya, this guy is a fraud, scam. He has a very bad reputation in the GCC countries for coming up with money making scams. I did some search on the web and found a lot negative articles on Bayt.Com and I am not sure how they can still have an office in Dubai.

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It depends on the legal ties between the investor and the company. If the investor does not legally own a stake in the company, I doubt you have much to worry about. If the investor has a legal stake in the company, it can be frozen as an asset of the individual and disposed of as needed to pay off debt.

There have been plenty of "successful companies" that have been funded by fraud. For instance, take the casinos of Nevada. My understanding is that once upon a time, many of the casinos were owned by mobsters.

But as time went on and these businesses became more successful, they outgrew their mob roots. Some of these guys surely went to prison for their deeds, but their businesses live on. If you own the business and you knew nothing of the wrong doing, you probably have nothing to worry about.(So long as everyone else believes you.) If you are a legally separate entity, your biggest problem may be finding a new source of funding.

If you are trying to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening, well, first of all good luck. The feds have been trying to figure that one out for years. The best thing you can do is to make sure that you don't get yourself too closely in bed with anyone legally.

Make sure whatever contracts you sign keep you and the other party separate. Don't merge bank accounts, companies, or anything else, without doing a LOT of investigation into the person you are considering doing this with. But is that any different from getting married?

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