Pune Job Offer Scam : Man losses 14 lakh on false Job Offer in Singapore

Pune : A hotel management graduate from Wanowrie was not allowed to enter Singapore to work as a chef in November 2021 and January 2022 on the charge of travelling on fake visa approval documents issued by two accused Pradeep Ilake & Ravi Tomar in a job fraud.

As per further information from the FIR accessed by Pune Pulse, the complainant Jayesh Mamtora’s elder son had done his graduation in hotel management and was working at a company. However, he thought of going to abroad & settle there. Hence, the complainant’s son was looking for a job abroad. In April 2021, he came in contact with Pradeep Ilake through a social media platform and they met at the latter’s hospitality management institute.

Ilake informed him that his son would be able to make up to Rs 33 lakh a month working in Singapore. Ilake therefore ordered the complainant to pay Rs 5.5 lakh in fees.

According to the case’s investigating officer, Ilake sent a hotel appointment letter with a barcode and his FIN (foreign identification number) mentioned on it after making a partial payment. The father of the aspiring chef then paid Ilake the remaining sum and purchased his son’s airline ticket. On September 19, 2021, the complainant and his son arrived at the Mumbai airport. Ilake called the complainant to inform him that his son had not received the approval of his visa.

The investigating officer went on to state that after returning to Pune, the complainant and his son began pursuing Ilake. Ilake had mailed the complainant the documents approving their visa in November of 2021. On 10th November, his son took a plane to Singapore. The graduate in hotel management was stopped at immigration because his entry for visa approval was missing. His return to India was ordered.

The investigating officer went on to say that in order to obtain a work visa for his son, accused Pradeep Ilake then demanded an additional Rs 3.55 lakh from him. Ilake sent him a visa application and an appointment letter from a different Singaporean hotel in April 2022. The complainant discovered that his son was banned from entering Singapore when he applied for the approval of the visa.

In this way, the accused had thus defrauded the victim’s father of Rs 10,88,885. The victim lost Rs 3,24,323 during his two trips to Singapore.

The father of the hotel management graduate filed a complaint with the Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Thursday after the accused failed to return the money despite several follow-ups.

A case has been registered under Sections 406, 420, 34, 427, 465, 468, 469, 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Further investigation of the case is underway.