INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Swindler allegedly offered ‘fake offer letters& to victims
KATHMANDU, JULY 8
Police have arrested Bijay Pandey, 34, on charge of swindling
lakhs of rupees from at least seven persons on the pretext of securing them employment at World Health OrganisationNepal office.
Pandey, who
hails from Devchuli Municipality of Nawalparasi East would lure people saying that he held higher rank in the organisation and his
recommendation would secure them jobs
He used to produce fake ‘job offer letters& from WHO to the victims in exchange of hefty amounts from them.
Police said he used to lure
people saying they could earn a lot of money once they were employed at WHO
Most of the victims were college graduates.
Police knew about the swindleract afterAshmita Adhikari, in her mid-twenties, of Chitwan filed a
police complaint against him for swindling almost Rs 200,000.
Pandey, who used to live in a rented room at Tinkune, Kathmandu, had
approached Adhikari in mid-May and lured her to join WHO, where he claimed to be working.
Pandey was able to convince the girl to deposit
the money in his bank account during intwo-months-period.
Only a few days earlier, the girl upon knowing that she was cheated filed a
complaint against the man at Metropolitan Police Circle at Baneshwor
He was arrested yesterday from Baneshwor.
Police had earlier received complaints about the man swindling money from many persons across the
valley but were not able to arrest him.
Another youth, Nishan Babu Ghimire also from Chitwan, had filed a complaint against Pandey for
swindling Rs 350,000 in exchange of a job at WHO.
Deepak Khanal, Dhan Bahadur Chhetri and Kasi Gurung of Manang, and two women Sarita
Bhandari and Rama Ghimire, whose address has not been revealed, have filed complaints at the police against the swindlers.
A version of this
article appears in e-paper on July 9, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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