Deceiving job seekers: 4 arrested from Ashulia

Rab arrested four members of a fraud gang from Ashulia area on charge of deceiving job seekers with promise of employment in their name-only company.

On information, a team of Rab carried out raid at Tanha Associates Limited around 3:30pm yesterday and arrested the four persons, said Mozammel Haque, commanding officer of Rab-4.

The arrestees are: Sabuz Kazi, 33, Shaon Moholder, 20, Mahbub Alam, 45, and Amirul Islam, 24.

The Rab team also found 15 cheated job seekers in the office and recovered 200 registration forms, 100 job advertisements and 30 appointment letters.

Mozammel said the gang used to rent offices in different areas in Dhaka and published job circulars in newspapers to attract unemployed persons with the prospect of high salary.

They used to demand money from job seekers as prerequisite to join the company. After getting the money, they used to issue appointment letters, but they would disappear -- closing their office after some days.