Click to play videoBangalore: The Bangalore police claim to have unearthed a placement agency that cheated software professionals with a promise of getting them jobs in top software companies.
Proprietor, Grasp Technologies, Sunil Nimbalkar is just one among more than a hundred victims of a recruitment scam busted by the Bangalore police recently.
Vinceraj Solomon, who ran a placement agency, Silicon Infosys, allegedly duped him.
"He (Solomon) came to me saying he is working with Accenture and he is opening his own recruitment company. I called Accenture and verified on the phone. I gave him so many candidates for recruitments. They made their payment to him through me. In the end he was untraceable, and I ended up repaying their money. My loss is more than Rs 25 lakh," Nimbalkar says.
The police have found that Solomon duped mainly IT engineers, swindling close to Rs 1.5 crore in the process. He used to issue fake offer letters, and in return took commissions from each candidate.
He mostly dealt in cash, and fled the scene without a trace.
"He issued duplicate appointment letters and duped people with job offers in companies like Accenture and HP. The Hebbal police investigated the case and we have recovered Rs 8.5 lakh in cash," Syed Ulfath Hussein, Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Bangalore, says.
What's interesting in the entire case is that, police allege that Solomon duped several people not just in Bangalore, but his network spread across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
Police also say that Solomon single handedly masterminded the whole plan.
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