Fake Manpower Agency Bamboozled 42 Youths Offering Overseas Jobs & Study
Some 42 youths including 18 of Rajshahi were ripped off their entire money amounting to Tk 1.65 crore by a fake manpower and travel agency that allured them with overseas job and higher education in Namibia.
Universal Consultants Limited, a Rajshahi based agency sent 24 of the cheated youths to Namibia, but all of them had to return home facing inhuman punishment and torture in Namibian custody for false travel and other necessary documents.
Police on Monday arrested Nurul Islam Mandol, a retired additional chief engineer of Power Development Board from his Bhadra residence for his involvement with the frauds' gang following complain of Tarek Ahmed, a swindled student of Shalbagan area.
The police said, the gang has international connection and they used to cheat people setting up a fake college styled International College of Business and Information Technology at Windhoek of Namibia.
The cheated youths and police said, Mondol's son-in-law Atik Shamsuzzoha Neon and his wife Nasima Khatun went into hiding.
As the fake agency started functioning in early 2006 over allurements of job and higher study abroad, some 24 youths including a couple and 16 others from Rajshahi gave them Tk 5 lakh each and flew to Namibia in June. And 18 others were waiting to go giving Tk 2.5 lakh each.
But within a month, the couple somehow returned home somehow to inform the waiting youths that Namibian police arrested 22 of their companions for fake travel, work and study documents.
Mafid, a torture victim told that he was kept in a dark jail on an far island in Namibia and after returning home, Atik and his officials started harassing him with different other allurements.
Tarek said, Atik and Nurul Islam Mondol gave him and some other youths cheques for returning money, but all those cheques were dishonoured in banks.
At one stage, the affected youths lost hopes and went to police as Atik and the agency officials tried to flee away closing their Sutanabad office.
A swindled youth of Naogaon seeking anonymity told that he was still to return home since he was called for flying to Namibia in April and later cheated keeping him in a slum at Uttara. "How can I face my parents when I am cheated of entire money they provided despite hardships?"
Universal Consultants Limited, a Rajshahi based agency sent 24 of the cheated youths to Namibia, but all of them had to return home facing inhuman punishment and torture in Namibian custody for false travel and other necessary documents.
Police on Monday arrested Nurul Islam Mandol, a retired additional chief engineer of Power Development Board from his Bhadra residence for his involvement with the frauds' gang following complain of Tarek Ahmed, a swindled student of Shalbagan area.
The police said, the gang has international connection and they used to cheat people setting up a fake college styled International College of Business and Information Technology at Windhoek of Namibia.
The cheated youths and police said, Mondol's son-in-law Atik Shamsuzzoha Neon and his wife Nasima Khatun went into hiding.
As the fake agency started functioning in early 2006 over allurements of job and higher study abroad, some 24 youths including a couple and 16 others from Rajshahi gave them Tk 5 lakh each and flew to Namibia in June. And 18 others were waiting to go giving Tk 2.5 lakh each.
But within a month, the couple somehow returned home somehow to inform the waiting youths that Namibian police arrested 22 of their companions for fake travel, work and study documents.
Mafid, a torture victim told that he was kept in a dark jail on an far island in Namibia and after returning home, Atik and his officials started harassing him with different other allurements.
Tarek said, Atik and Nurul Islam Mondol gave him and some other youths cheques for returning money, but all those cheques were dishonoured in banks.
At one stage, the affected youths lost hopes and went to police as Atik and the agency officials tried to flee away closing their Sutanabad office.
A swindled youth of Naogaon seeking anonymity told that he was still to return home since he was called for flying to Namibia in April and later cheated keeping him in a slum at Uttara. "How can I face my parents when I am cheated of entire money they provided despite hardships?"
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