Man held for duping over 600 foreign job aspirants
Kathmandu, Feb 1: The Valley Investigation Office, Kathmandu has arrested a person for duping more than 600 foreign job aspirants. The 32-year-old fraudster was made public by the police on Thursday.
Bikash Tamang (Waiba), 32, from Kanjosom rural municipality-4 of Lalitpur was arrested from Lele, Lalitpur. He had duped hundreds of people- lured them of sending foreign countries and providing jobs.
Senior Superintendent of Police at the Investigation Office, Somendra Singh Rathaur, informed that Tamang was found involved in defrauding millions of rupees from over 600 people. They were falsely assured of jobs in various European countries as Malta, Poland and Croatia, and Canada. Tamang assured the victims that he would send them to these countries, Rathaur added.
Tamang had worked as an agent for different human resource recruitment offices including Ayus Manpower since 2073BS and facilitated sending people to Dubai, Qatar and Malaysia. But since 2077BS, he was absconding and hiding in the country and India after a case filed on fraud and criminal gain.
Moreover, he was even running an educational consultancy at Balaju bearing a fake identity card, the police investigation stated.
Even the government employees were conned by him. Some of such employees quit the jobs. They were allured of employment in Europe.
Investigation revealed that he took Rs 1.8 million from a person for false facilitation in sending him/her to Canada, while Rs 800 thousand for Malta, Rs 700 thousand for Poland, Rs 650 thousand for Croatia.
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