Bhubaneswar: One more accused in the multi-crore job scam operating across 17 states of the country was arrested by the Economic Offence Wing(EOW) of Odisha police.
Economic Offences Wing, Bhubaneswar sources Tuesday said Jairam Tiwari, a native of Nayangaon in Bihar was arrested Monday from Bhubaneswar U/s 420/467/468/471/120-B IPC r/w Sec.66 (C) of IT Act.
The arrested accused will be produced before the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar Tuesday.
Tiwari, whom Esources said to be the main associate of Dharmapal Singh, the mastermind of the racket and a native of Rupanchak, under Hatua Police station of Gopalganj district in Bihar was arrested February 15 last from Hatua, Bihar.
Tiwari had received and misappropriated Rs.35,83,000 from the account of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan”. He was also the co-producer of a film produced by the accused Dharmapal Singh from the amount received through the fake advertisements in the name of Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan.
The scamster was operating the job racket in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand Rajasthan, Odisha, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Punjab and Haryana.
The scam was operating since 2020 and lakhs of unemployed youths across the nation applied for the posts by paying the required application fees. The scamsters have misappropriated the application fees amounting to crores of rupees from gullible job seekers.
They were using many shell companies like Gurba edutech private limited, Among seva foundation, Udyamita seva samiti foundation, Yotta edutech private limited, JPM innovative solution private limited, all based in New Delhi and Augustya Web, Sumitra production, Mumbai for routing and money laundering the ill-gotten money.
As of now, money laundering to the tune of about Rs.6.6 crores has been traced, EOW sources said. Further investigation is on.
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