Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing of Odisha police have arrested another accused Amit Kumar Singh in a fake job racket operating in at least 17 states in the country.
EOW sources here Friday said the accused, a native of Kasdeya, Maharajganj in Bihar was arrested March 15 last and produced before the Court of ACJM-6, Siwan, Bihar on the same day and brought on transit remand for his production before the SDJM court in Bhubaneswar.
The arrested accused being an IT graduate is the developer of the website i.e. www.grks.org of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” for floating the fake advertisement for the job.
He was managing the website by updating it from time to time. Besides, he was liaising with different payment gateways like Cashfree, Razorpay, Bharatpay, etc. for the maintenance of wallets of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” with them.
A source in EOW said the accused was providing technical support to the job racket and was getting the lucrative benefit from the account of Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan.
He is one of the main accused associated with the fake job racket and was providing technical support to the racket operating in at least 17 states.
The amounts collected from the candidates were being landed in different accounts ultimately controlled/ managed by the fraudsters. They used to conduct fake scholarship online exams too.
The scamsters were using many shell/sister companies for routing and money laundering the ill-gotten money.
As of now transaction/fraud of about Rs.6.6 crores has been traced to have been cheated from more than 40,000 job aspirants across the nation.
The source in EOW said one laptop containing fraudulent activities of Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan has been seized from the possession of the accused Amit.
Earlier, the main accused Dharmpal Singh and his associate Jairam Tiwari were arrested and forwarded in this case and they are still in judicial custody.
UNI