Two directors of a firm based in Ahmedabad’s New CG Road in Chandkheda area allegedly scammed a young man of lakhs of rupees by promising him work permit in New Zealand. Several people have been duped by the firm, as per the investigation.
The Chandkheda police have registered a case.
The fraudsters, who operated under the guise of a legitimate firm, created fake documents from a supposed New Zealand-based company to convince their victim that his visa application is in progress. For this, they took large sums of money.
Hardik Patel, a resident of Kalol’s Umiya Residency, was actively searching for a New Zealand work permit online.
When he spotted an advertisement on social media that assured work permits and visas for New Zealand, Hardik contacted the office of ‘Your Dream Overseas’ at North Plaza on New CG Road in Chandkheda.
There, he met a woman named Hema, and finalised a deal with her of ₹22 lakh for the work permit. As a token amount, he also paid 10% of the total sum.
Thereafter, a duo named Jay Modi and Kush Patel, who claimed to be the firm’s operators, took the required documents from Hardik, and promised that the process would be completed within five months.
They even sent fake company documents through WhatsApp to Hardik to convince him.
However, after a while, the fraudsters stopped responding to several attempts made to contact them, and also shut their office.
The investigation into this case revealed that many others were duped by the duo through a similar modus operandi.
Commenting on the case, Chandkheda Police Inspector N G Solanki said, “We have registered a case against the two accused. The victim belongs to a middle-class family, and he had invested his hard-earned money hoping for a work visa.”