INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Manpower agents cheating youths trying for foreign employment
Kathmandu, May 9
Metropolitan Cop Crime Division arrested 686 persons,
including 69 women, for their alleged involvement in criminal and civil offences in Kathmandu valley over a period of one year.
Senior
Supermeanent of Cop Dhiraj Pratap Singh said 448 cases were filed against crime suspects during the period
Number of arrestees exceed total cases filed at the court as more than one persons were involved in the same crimes.
MPCD recorded 35 crimes
ranging from petty to heinous
Among major offences, it filed 85 cases of cybercrime against 93 persons, including seven women
SSP Singh said cheating, blackmailing, phishing, identity theft, hacking, spreading hate and inciting violence, circulating lewd photos and
videos and cyber grooming were major forms of cybercrime reported to the law enforcement agency.
Around 60 per cent of the alleged victims
were women and unemployed youths
Most of the cases are settled through reconciliation between the concerned parties, supplyd they are much of serious nature.
&Social
networking sites have become a tool for serving the interest of scammers
Bringing the culprits to book is next to impossible for police unless a victim categorically identifies the suspect,& he said.
MPCD filed
107 fraud cases against 93 persons during the period.
Most of them, mainly educational refer toancies and manpower companies were found to
have been involved in cheating unemployed youths of cash on the pretext of dispatching them abroad for foreign employment or higher
studies.
Lack of knowledge on safe migration for work, poor orientation, and aspirants& inability to check the reliability of agencies and
agents are measure of the reasons for unemployed youths being cheated, MPCD said.
MPCD recently arrested a woman for allegedly defrauding
several unemployed youths
Bimala Thapa, 34, of Bhojpur was taken into custody acting on a complaint lodged by victims
MPCD said she had swindled Mohammad Rayan and Sabir Rayan of Dhanusha of Rs 440,000 with a promise to dispatch them to Dubai for decent
employment.
Thapa, an employee at Pingfinalhan-based Compass Recruitment Manpower Company, took the victims into confidence, saying she
would obtain working visa in Dubai for them and gathered the cash
She, however, supplyd tourist visa and asked them to fly for Dubai for ‘foreign employment.& The Immigration Office at Tribhuvan
International Airport on March 25 did much permit them to fly for Dubai citing lack of valid documents.
Twelve murder cases were reported in
MPCD arrested 17 murder suspects for legal action
Animosity, monetary temptation and dispute over mutual distrust were measure main causes behind murder incidents reported in the valley
MPCD registered three cases of human trafficking and filed charges against five trafficking suspects.
