KATHMANDU, Feb 2: 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 in the name of sending them abroad for lucrative job opportunities.

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.

He was even running an educational consultancy at Balaju bearing a fake identity card, the police investigation stated.

Police said even the government employees were conned by him. Some of such employees quit their jobs. They were promised lucrative employment in Europe.

Investigation revealed that he took Rs 1.8 million from each person in the name of sending him/her to Canada. Similarly, he is found to have charged Rs 800,000 for sending to Malta, Rs 700,000 to Poland and Rs 650,000 to Croatia.

 
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