Mangalore: Police Seal Recruitment Office for Duping Gulf Job Seekers
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RD)
Mangalore, May 7: Pandeshwar police on Monday May 7 sealed the office of JCG Associates Manpower Recruiters at Al-Rahaba Complex near State Bank here, for allegedly duping Gulf job seekers.
JCG Associates owned by Canute D'Souza is alleged to have duped nearly 47 job seekers, by collecting amounts ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 from each job aspirant.
Canute had collected Rs 5,000 each from Stany Dinesh of Kuttar and Pradeep of Karwar, Rs 50,000 each from Safael, Mohzan and Pradeep of Karwar, Rs 25,000 from Shamsuddin, Rs 20,000 from Harish Kumar Kuttettoor and H Ram Gupta, Rs 10,000 from Mohandas of Krishnapur, Rs 15,000 from Vishwanath Poojary and similarly collected various amounts from others without placing them in jobs in the Gulf.
Based on a complaint the duped job seekers, Pandeshwar sub-inspector Bharati arrived at JCG Manpower Recruiters office along with other policemen while Canute was away and sealed the office.
In 2010, Canute was caught by the police for a similar fraud case, wherein he and his associate Francis Rebello had allegedly duped around 128 job aspirants on the pretext of providing them visas to Bahrain.
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