MARGAO
A group of youngsters from across the state on Tuesday assembled outside the Margao police station to lodge a complaint against an overseas consulting firm for allegedly cheating them of crores of rupees on the promise of providing overseas jobs.
The youth came to the Margao police station to lodge the complaint since the office of the overseas consulting firm is located at Aquem-Margao.
Margao Police station in-charge, PI Tulsidas Naik, however, said the Margao police has not registered a FIR in the case for the reason that the transactions have not taken place in the jurisdiction of the Margao police station. “The victims have claimed that they had paid the money to the firm via bank transfers. Hence, the offense does not fall under the Margao police station jurisdiction. They have to lodge their complaints at the police stations where the money was transferred from the banks”, he added.
The youth claimed that the firm owned by a husband-wife duo, hailing from outside the state had taken huge sum of money from gullible overseas job seekers.
They claimed that the fees towards obtaining the job, were transferred via NEFT into the accounts of the husband-wife duo, the Directors of the Company.
Green Goa Foundation, which has taken up cudgels for the beleaguered youth told the media that candidates were promised job overseas in places like Malta, USA, Canada and Australia. “They youth were also guaranteed of being provided with genuine documentation right from the beginning of the process upto travelling to the country of the secured job and all related legal formalities. The company must have duped Goan youth to the tune of Rs 10 crore”, claimed GGF president Raison Almeida.
“Upon further investigation into the current situation, it has been revealed to GGF that the two Directors were also involved in generating fake documents such as Experience Certificates, industrial training Certificates and other documents such as Sponsorship letters, for the purpose of obtaining Visa and illegally migrating boys to other counties on the false pretext of assuring them job overseas”, Raison added.
He demanded to know how come the overseas consulting firm operating from Margao had escaped the attention of the law enforcing agencies, including the Crime branch. “They have been running the office at Margao over the last two years, but none of the enforcement agencies thought of conducting an inquiry into their operations”, he said.
The beleaguered youth have made representation to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, besides DGP, SP, South and other officials to probe into the operations of the company and return back their money.
