Two Nigerians among three held for job fraud

Three persons, including two Nigerian nationals, have been arrested for allegedly duping several persons across the country on the pretext of offering them jobs with a car-manufacturing company, police said today.
With this, the number of arrests in the case has reached 12. Nine alleged members of the gang were arrested in November this year, police said. The nine accused included distributors and retailers of phone companies.
The two alleged Nigerian masterminds Ndubuisi Charles (28) and Chinedu Cyprial (24), who had been staying in India even after the expiry of their visas, and Satpal (26), a mobile phone SIM card retailer, have been arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police.

Satpal has been arrested for providing SIM cards to the Nigerians on fake documents.
Three laptops, computer hard discs, printers, Internet dongles, eight mobile phones, several passbooks and ATM cards, thousands of photographs of different persons, hundreds of fake IDs, fake customer application forms of cellular companies and about 500 inactivated and activated SIM cards were seized from them, police said.
"Several job seekers from different areas of the country, were cheated by the gang in the recent past. The victims had uploaded their resumes on various job portals," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.

"These people had received emails with the subject "Maruti Suzuki India Interview Call" offering handsome salary packages," said Yadav.

The victims were informed that the company was hiring for its new plants in Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai and they have been selected for interview at the office at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi on June 2, he said.
"They were asked to deposit a refundable cash security of Rs 15,990 in favour of company's HRD accountant through any SBI Branch. They were told that this was to discourage non-serious candidates," said Yadav.
The investigation in the case was taken up on the complaint of Niranjan Kumar Ramamurthy, a resident of Bangalore.
During investigation, it was learnt that the accused had used more than 13 SBI bank accounts all over India and more than 20 phone numbers to carry out the fraud.

It was further revealed that all the mobile phones used by the accused had been activated on the basis of fake identities, police said.
"Chinedu Cyprial was staying in a rented house in Mahavir Enclave, Palam. Ndubuisi Charles lived in West Sagar Pur. Both of them were overstaying in India, after expiry of their valid visas. Hence, relevant section of Foreigners Act was also added in the case." said Yadav.
Satpal has a mobile phone shop in Uttam Nagar, he said.