Mumbai: Kingpins of job scam arrested, 482 victims’ passports recovered | Mumbai News
Mumbai: Kingpins of job scam arrested, 482 victims’ passports recovered | Mumbai News
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The Mumbai police crime branch on Wednesday said they arrested the kingpins of a gang that had duped several youngsters by promising them jobs abroad. While so far, the Mumbai Police crime branch had arrested five persons in the matter, the main accused who had been elusive were arrested from West Bengal earlier this week. The duo was produced before the court and remanded to police custody.
DCP (crime) Raj Tilak Roushan said they arrested Pateet Pavan Haldar (36) and Mohammad Shaikh Mansoori (49), both residents of West Bengal. “We have managed to recover 482 passports of innocent victims that had been taken by the accused from them. Earlier the police had recovered 62 passports from the other accused. With these two arrests, a total of seven persons have now been arrested in the case,” Roushan said.
He added that those arrested hail from Delhi, UP, Bihar, Maharashtra and now West Bengal. The accused had started placement agencies called Bombay International Consultancy and Indian Overseas at CST and Andheri. They would promise jobs to unemployed youth in countries like Azerbaijan, Oman, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They would ask the youngsters to submit their passport and pay anywhere between Rs 50,000 and Rs one lakh.
They would then provide fake work visas and work permits to these victims to prove their credibility thereby demanding more money. After having collected enough money, the accused would leave and close the shops and go missing.
After several such complaints were received, the police registered an FIR at the MRA Marg police station and the probe was handed over to the Mumbai crime branch (unit V) which has made the arrests so far.
Five held in fake documents scam
In another case, the Mumbai crime branch arrested five persons for allegedly providing fake Aadhar cards and other documents to Bangladeshis to prove they were Indian nationals. Earlier, the police had arrested two persons in the case. It was their interrogation that led to the arrests of the other five accused.
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