Indian authorities are holding a Nigerian and his Indian girlfriend for job scam.
According to reports, 41-year-old Imasaun Henry Omorogby and Sheela Dey alias Priya Dass, 24, were arrested by the police in Delhi for allegedly cheating job seekers by promising them employment in foreign countries.
The two were declared wanted after a woman reported she was duped of her Rs 8 lakh (about N4,133, 142.27). The duo had reportedly offered her the post of an operation manager in an oil and gas company in Malaysia on a monthly salary of Rs 2.5 lakh (about N1,291,606.96).
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Deputy commissioner of police, Anto Alphonse, said Omorogby and Dey were caught outside Hyderabad airport on August 14 following information that Sheela was returning from Bangkok and she would meet Henry at the airport.
“Two laptops, seven mobile phones, five chequebooks, 27 plastic cards, four forged PAN cards and as many voter identity cards along with Rs 1 lakh in cash were seized from the duo,” said Alphonse.
DCP Alphonse said the arrests came following probe into a cheating case filed by Vaishnavi Balasubramanium from Delhi’s Dwarka. The complainant told police that in September last year she had received an email with a job offer in Malaysia. She responded to the email and forwarded her personal biodata and other requisite documents.
“The racketeers tricked her into depositing a total of Rs 8.05 lakh in their bank account, saying the money was required for obtaining a work permit, immigration clearance and for other processing fees. To win her confidence, they also sent her a fake job offer letter of the company,” said the DCP.
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The woman became suspicious when in February this year she received a call from one Madhuri, who identified herself as an employee of the Union ministry of finance and demanded Rs 65,000 for releasing her documents. She contacted the ministry and upon verification found that no employee called Madhuri worked there.
A case was registered on her complaint and investigations taken up. During the probe, investigators collected information about the email addresses through which the emails were sent and also of the bank account in which the money was deposited. Police found that the email address used by the account holder was tagged with one Bhaskar Reddy on a social media account.
“We also found Sheela Dey’s photograph on social media and gathered information about her through technical surveillance. We also scanned her social media account. She had updated her status as “Going [to] Bangkok” and uploaded a photograph clicked at Hyderabad airport on August 8,” said Alphonse.
Investigators collected her travel details and learnt that she would land at the airport on August 14.
“We laid a trap and caught her with her Nigerian associate,” said an investigator.
