| Summary | - Indian finance influencer who ran the channel Finance With Harish on Instagram and YouTube
- Built a following of more than one million over five years with videos on finance and investments
- His Instagram page alone surpassed 1.3 million followers
- Faced public accusations of giving financial advice and investment services without the required registration
- In September, his established accounts were mass-reported and blocked by the platforms, and Meta disabled his main Instagram account
- A new channel he launched was also reported and blocked
- In October, Jason Samuel, CEO of the venture studio Zemuria Inc, posted videos and content questioning Harish's credentials and authority to give financial advice
- Harish's father said Samuel posted the content on 18 October 2026
- Harish recorded a video, which his friends called his final recording, in which he spoke of losing five years of hard work, harassment, threats, demands for money, and threats of income tax penalties and jail; he named no one in the video
- NDTV said it could not independently verify the video
- He died on 20 October 2026 at a rented villa near Muttukadu, outside Chennai
- Police recovered no suicide note; the cause of death was reported as suicide
- The body was sent to Chengalpattu Government Hospital for an autopsy
- His father, J. Vinayagam, complained to Kanathur police, naming Samuel and alleging cyberbullying, threats, and a demand for Rs 3 crore
- The father also alleged that Samuel invoked the names of the Puducherry Chief Minister and a local MLA and threatened the family
- Samuel denied cyberbullying, said he only questioned Harish's credentials, and alleged that Harish held no Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) licence from SEBI and misrepresented his AMFI registration
- Kanathur police registered a case of unnatural death and examined statements from both sides along with the digital material
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