In the garb of providing job opportunities abroad such as in the United Kingdom and Russia, a private firm through advertisement in the national papers cheated more than 200 people to the tunes of crores in the national Capital.
Police said that they have received a couple of complaints and suspect that the private firm had cheated more than 500 people. “So far, in the enquiry, we believe that the firm has cheated at least 200 people through the means of advertisement in the
newspapers.”
Police said that they came to know about the nexus of the firm, Atlas World Solution Private limited, when one of the victims approached them in the Netaji Subhash Place police station on March 16.
A senior police officer, privy to the investigation, said, “The private firm, Atlas World Solution private ltd endorsed about their services of helping common man in getting jobs in the United Kingdom especially in Georgia and in Russia. The company enticed scores of hundreds of people by publishing about their company in the newspapers across India. Through one such advertisement, one 35-year-old Delhi based man approached the company office at Netaji Subhash Place in Pitampura.
As per the complaint submitted by one of the victims to the Delhi Police, the owners and the management of the company acted as top professionals. “The company employees claimed that they had catering in helping people get job in the UK and Russia. Their modus operandi is simple-first ask the victim to get their medical tests done for a petty amount of money. The accused sought Rs 4,600 from each victim only for the medical tests. Then they claimed that the reports will be sent to the job aspirant in a matter of 10-15 days. Once the victim got their medical reports, they were asked to submit a particular amount of money for the final agreement papers. The cost of the agreement papers was Rs 31,000. These papers included offer letters, visa documents etc,” said police sources.
For those job aspirants who were willing to work in Georgia, the accused asked for an amount of Rs 64,600 and for those, who wished to work in Russia, the amount to be paid to the company was Rs 35,600, said a senior police officer.
“Once the victims paid the requisite amount of money, the private firm severed all contact with the aspirants. When the aspirants went to the head office in Netaji Subhash Place, they found that the main door of the head office, located on the fifth floor of Krishna Opera building was locked. All the mobile phone numbers of the employees and top managers of the firm too were found to be switched off,” added the officer.
Police said that they have registered the cases under section 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 120 B ( Punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. Further investigation in the matter is still on.