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  "id": 18768,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/how-a-250-million-acquisition-collapsed-into-allegations-of-fraud-and-forged-signatures",
  "title": "How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures",
  "summary": "Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.",
  "authors": "Russell Brandom",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T15:44:56.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18768",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/how-a-250-million-acquisition-collapsed-into-allegations-of-fraud-and-forged-signatures",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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