February 2: The Valley Crime 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 by  luring them to send to foreign countries and provide jobs.

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 such as Malta, Poland and Croatia, and Canada. Tamang had pledged the victims that he would send them to those countries, Rathaur added.

Earlier, 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.

Moreover, he was even running an educational consultancy at Balaju bearing a fake identity card, the police investigation stated. Even some government employees were conned by him. Some of the employees had quit the jobs with false promise of landing jobs  in Europe.

Police investigation revealed that he took Rs 1.8 million from a person for sending to him/her to Canada, while Rs 800 thousand for Malta, Rs 700 thousand for Poland, Rs 650 thousand for Croatia. (RSS)