{"id":9243,"date":"2013-07-22T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pyramid-scheme-members-stranded-as-bnr-freezes\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:57:56","slug":"pyramid-scheme-members-stranded-as-bnr-freezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pyramid-scheme-members-stranded-as-bnr-freezes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyramid Scheme Members Stranded as BNR Freezes Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of Diamond Holiday Travel, a pyramid business in Rwanda say they are concerned after their Company account was allegedly frozen by the central Bank of Rwanda -BNR.}}<\/p>\n<p>The bank declined to comment as the matter is under investigation.<br \/>\nDiamond Holiday Travel, is a Hong Kong based company engaged in pyramid business in Rwanda and tour and travel services. <\/p>\n<p>It has about 3,500 members in its pyramid business. However, to become a member you have to deposit Frw250,000 on the company\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>A member who brings in new members is given, onset, Frw500,000 and as the team builds she\/he is rewarded a bonus of Frw5 million. This translates that she\/he moves to a second category.<\/p>\n<p>Climbing in steps comes with benefits such as getting a discount on hotels and air tickets to the registered members when they travel.<\/p>\n<p>Long queues can be cited at the offices of DHT, members coming to get their cash. The organization\u2019s activities were registered by Rwanda Development Board last September. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the members ORINFOR crew talked to said that they are greatly concerned by the freezing of the company\u2019s account by the Central Bank. <\/p>\n<p>They said they are making losses as some had deposited as much as Frw1,000,000.<br \/>\nOn its part, Diamond Holiday Travel said that the central bank informed them that the company\u2019s account in ECOBANK had been frozen; without providing reasons for such a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, speaking to Radio Rwanda declined to comment on the matter as investigations are underway.<\/p>\n<p>DHT began operations in Rwanda in September last year. It has branches in 18 countries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>{Orinfor}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of Diamond Holiday Travel, a pyramid business in Rwanda say they are concerned after their Company account was allegedly frozen by the central Bank of Rwanda -BNR.}} The bank declined to comment as the matter is under investigation. Diamond Holiday Travel, is a Hong Kong based company engaged in pyramid business in Rwanda and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}