This Article is From Mar 15, 2012

Hyderabad consultant held for duping job seekers

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh CID arrested the owner of a consultancy firm from the city forallegedly duping aspirants, comprising doctors among others, under the pretext of providing them jobs abroad.

P V Koteswara Rao was apprehended by the sleuths of the Cyber Crime cell of the Crime Investigation Department forallegedly cheating doctors and other aspirants through his firm on the pretext of providing them jobs in Australia aftercollecting a huge amount, a senior CID officer said.

On a complaint lodged last year by the victims, the CID had taken up the investigations and nabbed the accused, he said.

After examining witnesses and with technical evidence, like the IP log details and subsequent end-user details, athand we traced the consultant and arrested him, the officer said.

According to police, Rao has confessed to have fleeced the doctors looking for appointment in Australia and collectedhuge amounts from them without processing their applications.

After examining the seized papers from Rao, it was found that he has cheated 15 doctors by promising them jobs inAustralia, another police officer associated with the probe said.

The accused told interrogators that the victims had approached him in order to send them to Australia for suitablejobs and he duped them on the pretext of processing their applications and sent fake offer letters through emails to them.

Whenever the victims used to insist the accused about visa processing, he used to postpone the issue.
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