A former top Indian stock exchange executive promoted to a highly paid job on the advice of a Himalayan mystic who may not even exist has been arrested in a bizarre corporate scandal.
Anand Subramanian was appointed chief operating officer of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in 2015 by then CEO Chitra Ramkrishna a high-flying woman executive feted as the “queen of the bourse” — who allegedly took business advice from a “yogi” she met by the River Ganges.