MUMBAI: Two people have been arrested for allegedly cheating at least 124 job aspirants around Rs 2 crore after promising them jobs in the Gulf. The two arrested accused – proprietor of the bogus recruitment agency Ghulamgaus Jehangirdar who is from Latur and Faiyaz Khan who hails from Uttar Pradesh- had issued fake job offer letters, appointment letters and bogus flight tickets after collecting money from job applicants.
The two accused were nabbed from Uttar Pradesh, said officials of Santacruz police station where a case has been registered against the two.
Over a month ago, the two accused had rented out a garage on SV Road and set up their office ‘Ocean HR Enterprises’. The office shut around mid-November. The police have recovered passports of at least 124 job-seekers besides other documents that the two accused persons had collected from the applicants.
One of the applicants who had approached them, Valsad Rasikbhai Patel (39), was supposed to fly to Turkey on Wednesday when he realised, barely a couple of days before he was to fly, that the flight ticket issued to him was bogus, the police said.
After the fraud came to light and word spread, more than 150 other job-seekers who had submitted their passports and other documents approached the police. A first information report (FIR) was registered. The accused from Latur had given his name as Arshad Ansari and posted a job opening advertisment on Facebook. He had paid Rs 69,000 in the hope of getting a welder’s job in Turkey and had submitted his passport. He was promised a salary between 750 and 1,000 US dollars.
“The modus operandi was to set up an office in a rented place and after achieving their target, they would vanish within a month or two,” said deputy commissioner of police Krishnakant Upadhaya.
“I received the job offer letter and flight ticket on WhatsApp on November 9… On Wednesday, I learnt that the office had been shut and many others had been duped,” Patel has said in his complaint.
Based on the complaint, deputy commissioner of police Upadhaya supervised a team of ACP Mahesh Mugutrao, senior inspector Rajendra Kane, inspectorJyoti Hibare, assistant inspector Tushar Sawant, sub-inspector Dattatray Khade who traced the money trail provided by the fraudster.
The accused had collected passports and cash between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh from the job-seekers and issued a job offer letter and air tickets which were later found to be bogus, said the police.
The two accused were nabbed from Uttar Pradesh, said officials of Santacruz police station where a case has been registered against the two.
Over a month ago, the two accused had rented out a garage on SV Road and set up their office ‘Ocean HR Enterprises’. The office shut around mid-November. The police have recovered passports of at least 124 job-seekers besides other documents that the two accused persons had collected from the applicants.
One of the applicants who had approached them, Valsad Rasikbhai Patel (39), was supposed to fly to Turkey on Wednesday when he realised, barely a couple of days before he was to fly, that the flight ticket issued to him was bogus, the police said.
After the fraud came to light and word spread, more than 150 other job-seekers who had submitted their passports and other documents approached the police. A first information report (FIR) was registered. The accused from Latur had given his name as Arshad Ansari and posted a job opening advertisment on Facebook. He had paid Rs 69,000 in the hope of getting a welder’s job in Turkey and had submitted his passport. He was promised a salary between 750 and 1,000 US dollars.
“The modus operandi was to set up an office in a rented place and after achieving their target, they would vanish within a month or two,” said deputy commissioner of police Krishnakant Upadhaya.
“I received the job offer letter and flight ticket on WhatsApp on November 9… On Wednesday, I learnt that the office had been shut and many others had been duped,” Patel has said in his complaint.
Based on the complaint, deputy commissioner of police Upadhaya supervised a team of ACP Mahesh Mugutrao, senior inspector Rajendra Kane, inspectorJyoti Hibare, assistant inspector Tushar Sawant, sub-inspector Dattatray Khade who traced the money trail provided by the fraudster.
The accused had collected passports and cash between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh from the job-seekers and issued a job offer letter and air tickets which were later found to be bogus, said the police.
