Bangalore: Two persons were arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) for running a fake job consultancy firm at Shivaji Nagar in the city on Thursday October 30.
The arrested have been identified as accounts manager, Mohammed Shakeel and his assistant James. However the prime accused, owner of the company, Shabbir Ahmed and senior manager Mohammed Azam are absconding. They allegedly duped several aspirants by luring them with jobs in IT firms.
Based on a tip off from one of the victims, who had posted information on Twitter, a team of police raided the Exalt Consultancy placement service in Shivaji Nagar and arrested the duo.
Joint commissioner of police Hemanth Nimbalkar said that the accused collected details of job aspirants from various portals and lured them with lucrative jobs in IT and other financial companies. They got them to register with for a fee ranging from Rs. 5,000 to 9,000.
Out of 13,947 people registered with the placement service company, only seven got jobs since 2011, added Nimbalkar.
Preliminary enquiries revealed that the company has collected Rs 2.75 crore so far, of which Rs 54.33 lakh has been refunded.
The CCB has seized computer accessories, 41 landlines and a card swiping machine.
