342:, apparently written by Siddhartha and addressed to his company board, shareholders, and family, surfaced a few hours after he went missing. This letter detailed the unbearable pressure he was subjected to over the years and the harassment he faced under the "previous" Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) (referred to as DG in the letter).
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as a management trainee/intern in portfolio management and securities trading on the Indian stock market. After two years, he returned to
Bangalore. With capital given by his father, Siddhartha bought stocks worth â‚ą30,000 and started the company Sivan Securities. In 1999, it was renamed Way2wealth
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on a 59-acre (240,000 m) plot as an incubator park in
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He planted banana trees on 3,000 acres (1,214 ha) and had plans to export bananas. The Dark Forest
Furniture Company is named after V. G. Siddhartha's Kathale Kaad (Dark Forest in Kannada) estate in
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