The Khammam police in Andhra Pradesh took Amway India CEO William Scott Pinckney into custody today following registration of a case against the direct selling company.
Amway is facing nine criminal cases at various places in Andhra Pradesh.
A court in Kurnool district also rejected Pinckney's bail petition and granted his five-day remand to Kurnool police while the Punjagutta police registered yet another case against him.
Howver, before Kurnool police could take his custody, the Khammam Police obtained a production warrant from a court in Khammam and furnished it to the Kadapa jail authorities this evening. A complaint has been filed against Amway by one G Rama Rao in Khammam.
"We have taken him (Pinckney) into custody from Kadapa prison....He will be produced before a court in Khammam district," a senior police official told PTI late this evening.
Kurnool Superintendent of Police (SP) Raghurami Reddy said they will seek Pinckney's custody from Khammam police by producing the Kurnool court's order. "We may lose one day (of custodial interrogation period) in this process," he said.
"The police were permitted to take him (Pinckney) into five-day custody from tomorrow (by Kurnool court). It (the Amway business) is going on for the past several years. We need to find out the details about the company's revenues and mode of operations," the police official told PTI over phone from Kurnool.
Responding to a complaint alleging financial irregularities in Amway's operations, Pinckney was arrested in Gurgaon by the Kurnool Police. He was produced before a court yesterday which sent him to Kadapa district jail on a judicial remand.
