Bhubameswar, Feb 18 (FN Representative) Economic Offences Wing, Bhubaneswar have cracked a multi crore job scam operating across 17 states of the country with the arrest of the prime accused. EOW sources here on Saturday said accused Dharampal Singh, a native of Rupanchak, under Hatua Police station of Gopalganj district in Bihar was arrested on February 15 last from Hatua, Bihar U/s 420/467/468/471/120-B IPC r/w Sec.66 (C) of IT Act. Dharmapal was produced before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj on February 16 and is being brought on transit remand for his production in the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar. 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 arrested accused Dharmalpal is the Secretary of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” having its registered office in New Delhi and other offices in Mumbai, Bhopal and Dehradun. The scamster had developed the website resembling a Government website displaying the Government like job advertisements and inviting applications for various jobs like District and block coordinator, computer operator, block surveyor . He also offered reservations and concessional fees as being done for Government jobs and warned about job fraud in their website to gain the confidence of the job seekers.
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 scamster misappropriated the application fees amounting to crores of rupees from the gullible job seekers. The scamsters were using many shell companies like gurba edutech private limited, amogh 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. Further investigation is on.