The owner and founder of popular coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day went missing on Monday evening, sparking off a huge search and rescue operation. His body was finally recovered early Wednesday morning after 36 hours of frantic search.

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Promoter family's un-encumbered equity was barely worth Rs 426 crore in the company's total market-cap of Rs 3,254 crore

Apart from Siddhartha, the non-executive directors who did not draw their salaries include his wife Malavika Hegde, and the Chief Executive Officer of KKR India Sanjay Omprakash Nayar

In an alleged letter by Siddhartha - addressed to the board members of CDEL and 'coffee day family' - he blamed himself for having failed to create a profitable business model in spite of his best efforts

I-T dept responds to VG Siddhartha's letter: The authenticity of the note is not known and the signature does not tally with VGS' signature as available in his annual reports, said the department.

VG Siddhartha disappearance: He concludes the letter by saying that his intention was not to cheat or mislead anyone. \"I have failed as an entrepreneur,\" he mentions in the letter.

Four overseas corporate bodies hold substantial stake in VG Siddhartha's Coffee Day Enterprises with or 22.35 per cent shares between them. Out of them, NLS Mauritius LLC holds the maximum 10.61 per cent shares of the company

CCD owner and founder VG Siddhartha became a full-time investor in the stock market and also owned 10,000 acres of coffee farms by 1985. As years go by, his wealth doubled with the liberalisation of coffee trading in the 1990s.

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