Nepal jobs racket in Kolkata
surreal_ravi
Indo-Asian News Service
Kathmandu, November 29
A Kolkata-based agency has been accused of duping Nepalese workers by
taking money from them in return for promises of jobs in Azerbaijan
and then leaving them in the lurch, media reports said on Monday.
Euro International, a recruitment agency in Kolkata, in cahoots with
Kathmandu-based Everest Employment Consultancy, cheated about 200
workers, the reports said.
The organisations had published advertisements in a daily, saying 200
workers were wanted for different jobs in Azerbaijan with salaries
ranging from $250 to $700, the Himalayan Times reported.
The selected applicants were told to pay between Nepalese Rs 80,000
and Rs 125,000. On October 22, 81 applicants were taken to New Delhi
and told they would have to wait for four days for procedures to be
completed.
However, their stay in Delhi dragged on to over a month. The two men
from the Kathmandu agency who had accompanied them, its managing
director Devi Prasad Bhetwal and a broker Gyan Bahadur Karki, vanished
in the meantime, leaving the men in the lurch.
"Sheikh Mohammad Rafique, chief director of Euro International, kept
their hopes alive by sending them facsimile copies of air tickets to
Azerbaijan...," the daily said.
Torpedo
Seven people with arms arrested near Turbat
QUETTA: A law-enforcement agency arrested seven men with a cache of weapons
near Turbat on Sunday. Only one of the arrested men, Muhammad Yaqub, was
identified. Five Klashnikovs, two pistols, 556 bullets, a satellite phone,
94 bottles of liquor, a video camera and Rs 17,910 were confiscated from
them. The local administration has started quizzing them and expects to make
more arrests, officials said. online
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