Chennai: Three held in job racket case

Chennai: The sleuths of Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested a trio including the son of a retired police inspector, on Friday, for defrauding dozens of job aspirants with some of them languishing in Chinese prisons for immigration related offences.

The trio was identified as Daniel aka Parthasarathy, (33), resident of Injambakkam, who ran Jai Danny Education and Immigration Consultancy in Injambakkam, and his headhunting agents, Lenin Paes aka Lenin, (30), resident of Kanthanchavadi, and Ganesh, (36), resident of Mogappair – west.

They offered jobs in various capacities corresponding to their educational qualifications of the applicants. They lured applicants via various platforms including online networking sites. The package they offered was in the range of Rs 2-4 lakh  per person and promised to get them work permits along job offers.

However, they sent the applicants to China and Canada via tourist visa without any job offers. They convinced the applicants to make the travel in tourist visas claiming that the visas would be converted into business visas after the job offers were extended.

Whenever the applicants contacted them, they gave one reason or the other for not able to get them the job offers and work permits. As some sensed that they were conned, they used their own money to return to India while the others whose visa got expired in China were arrested there for overstay. Those stranded in Chinese jails were helped by the Indian Embassy, which secured their release, and sent them back home.

People who were caught in the fraud lodged a complaint with CCB sleuths after they failed to return the money after repeated requests. The trio had cheated to the tune of '65 lakh from 29 aspirants. A case was registered and the trio was arrested. Ganesh is the son of a retired police inspector.