Bangalore: A scam of fake IT job experience certificates was busted by the Bangalore Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on Monday and Tuesday. Over 20 people were arrested in raids at seven places in the city.
City Police Commissioner MN Reddi said more than 25,000 people had managed to get fake experience certificates through this syndicate and had used them to secure jobs in established IT firms. He directed the IT companies to alert Bangalore police about employees who had been hired in the past three years based on these certificates.
Kiran Kumar, 35, of Jayanagar is believed to be a main accused in the scam. He had rented an office, from where he ran at least 35 firms solely to issue fake job certificates. The other accused are Rangaraj, 35, of Krishna Reddy Layout, Sheik Altaz Ahmed, 39, of Bismillah Nagar, and Balaraj, 28, of Sultan Palya.
Police recovered computers, more than 25 phones, four mobile phones, student ID Cards, job offer letters, relieving letters, work experience letters, fake stamps and other documents from the accused. Based on information provided by Kumar and his aides, six more raids were conducted and 15 others arrested. Hemanth Nimbalkar, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that the accused charged Rs15,000 for issuing certificates for three years of experience in the name of nonexistent firms.
Customers had to shell out double the amount�Rs 30,000�for certificates in the name of genuine companies. The rates also varied with the years of experience.
Abhishek Goyal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that the city police commissioner had received an email about the scam and forwarded it to the CCB police for investigation. The police teams managed to conduct raids on seven places in the city, busting a racket of IT firms registered with the prime intention of issuing fake job experience certificates in return for large sums of money.
Police said most of the certificates were issued in the name of Tarangi Infomatics Consultancy Service in Jayanagar, Cionix India Pvt Ltd in BTM Layout, Projenix Infomatics in KEB Layout, Solvent Top Tech India Pvt Ltd in JP Nagar, and Infer Software Solutions in Bank Colony.
The other accused are identified as Chandra Obala Reddy (30), Chinnareddy (27), Raveendra Reddy (25), all three residents of BTM Layout; Hemanth Kumar, 38, of Chikka Kallasandra; Lakshmana Reddy, 32, of Wilson Garden; Subbarao, 26 and I Venugopal, 26, both residents of JP Nagar; Srinivas, 34, Sheik Ayub, 21, Rajesh, 28, Ramanjaneyalu, 27, Lokesh, 25, Surendra, 27, Murali, 26, Karuna Vallari and others.
Police said most of the accused hail from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and run their illegal business in Bangalore.
The police investigation reveals that the accused set up an office with several telephone connections, one for each fake firm. Whenever IT firms called them to verify the credentials of candidates who had been issued the experience certificates, the accused answered the phones posing as the fake firms� HR heads.
Police found that the syndicate issued at least 20 fake certificates per day.
Police said they have a list of over 25,000 people who bought these certificates. -We will book them too as they got jobs by forging documents,- Nimbalkar said. http://www.sahilonline.org/english/newsDetails.php?cid=2&nid=27791
City Police Commissioner MN Reddi said more than 25,000 people had managed to get fake experience certificates through this syndicate and had used them to secure jobs in established IT firms. He directed the IT companies to alert Bangalore police about employees who had been hired in the past three years based on these certificates.
Kiran Kumar, 35, of Jayanagar is believed to be a main accused in the scam. He had rented an office, from where he ran at least 35 firms solely to issue fake job certificates. The other accused are Rangaraj, 35, of Krishna Reddy Layout, Sheik Altaz Ahmed, 39, of Bismillah Nagar, and Balaraj, 28, of Sultan Palya.
Police recovered computers, more than 25 phones, four mobile phones, student ID Cards, job offer letters, relieving letters, work experience letters, fake stamps and other documents from the accused. Based on information provided by Kumar and his aides, six more raids were conducted and 15 others arrested. Hemanth Nimbalkar, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that the accused charged Rs15,000 for issuing certificates for three years of experience in the name of nonexistent firms.
Customers had to shell out double the amount�Rs 30,000�for certificates in the name of genuine companies. The rates also varied with the years of experience.
Abhishek Goyal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that the city police commissioner had received an email about the scam and forwarded it to the CCB police for investigation. The police teams managed to conduct raids on seven places in the city, busting a racket of IT firms registered with the prime intention of issuing fake job experience certificates in return for large sums of money.
Police said most of the certificates were issued in the name of Tarangi Infomatics Consultancy Service in Jayanagar, Cionix India Pvt Ltd in BTM Layout, Projenix Infomatics in KEB Layout, Solvent Top Tech India Pvt Ltd in JP Nagar, and Infer Software Solutions in Bank Colony.
The other accused are identified as Chandra Obala Reddy (30), Chinnareddy (27), Raveendra Reddy (25), all three residents of BTM Layout; Hemanth Kumar, 38, of Chikka Kallasandra; Lakshmana Reddy, 32, of Wilson Garden; Subbarao, 26 and I Venugopal, 26, both residents of JP Nagar; Srinivas, 34, Sheik Ayub, 21, Rajesh, 28, Ramanjaneyalu, 27, Lokesh, 25, Surendra, 27, Murali, 26, Karuna Vallari and others.
Police said most of the accused hail from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and run their illegal business in Bangalore.
The police investigation reveals that the accused set up an office with several telephone connections, one for each fake firm. Whenever IT firms called them to verify the credentials of candidates who had been issued the experience certificates, the accused answered the phones posing as the fake firms� HR heads.
Police found that the syndicate issued at least 20 fake certificates per day.
Police said they have a list of over 25,000 people who bought these certificates. -We will book them too as they got jobs by forging documents,- Nimbalkar said. http://www.sahilonline.org/english/newsDetails.php?cid=2&nid=27791
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