Karimnagar: A Hyderabad-based computer graphic designer and a travel agent of Koratla have been arrested for allegedly duping jobless youths by giving them fake certificates of academic degrees to secure passports for jobs in Gulf countries.
Scores of fabricated certificates, two computers, 25 fake passports, and several printers and scanners were seized from them. The two were produced before the media here on Sunday.
SP D. Joel Davis said the arrested men were Abdul Sattar, a graphic designer from Red Hills in Hyderabad and M.D. Kamruddin from Koratla town. Sattar had returned to Hyderabad after working in Dubai for 15 years.
They were detained following a complaint from Koppula Sekhar of Yakeenpur village in Koratla mandal. Sekhar approached cops after being deceived by Kamruddin in the guise of issuing a passport. Sattar confessed he was issuing fake certificates to unemployed youths trying to go to Gulf countries for jobs.
He said he charged them money for arranging passports with the help of fake certificates he created with the computer at his residence. He said he had been preparing counterfeit SSC, birth, residence and Intermediate certificates with which ineligible youths would secure Emigration Check Not Required (ECNR) passports for working in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
The designer admitted that he had deployed agents across the state to get such works from jobless youths. He had been extracting around '30,000 to '50,000 from the youths. “Kamruddin was one of his agents. We are trying to find out as to how many agents were working for Sattar,” Davis said.
