Second chargesheet filed in nursing recruitment scam
Saturday, January 21, 2017
India's CBI, which is probing a multi-crore scam in connection with recruitment of nurses to Kuwait, has filed one more chargesheet naming Kochi's protector of emigrants (PoE) L Adolphus as the prime accused.
The chargesheet names Mailakkattu Varghese Uthuppu - who used to run the Kochi-based Al Zarafa Manpower Consultants Pvt Ltd, his wife Susan Thomas (then chairman of Al-Zarafa) and two of their employees Jossy and Pradeep K S as the accused. Also, two hawala operatives - V S Suresh Babu of Suresh Forex and Abdul Nasser who runs Malabar Foreign Exchange in Kochi - were arraigned as accused in the chargesheet.
As per report, CBI maintained that the accused entered into a conspiracy to accept an exorbitant Rs 19.5 lakh as service charge for issuing nursing visa to candidates. The candidates were offered jobs with the ministry of health in Kuwait.
The chargesheet states that the accused committed offences under IPC sections 120 B, 384 and 420 and sections 13(2) and 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sections 24 and 25 of the Emigration Act, 1983.
Sources said investigating agencies had found that the accused Suresh and Abdul Nazar assisted Varghese to transact Rs 230 crore through hawala channels.
The CBI had recently filed another chargesheet in a separate case registered in connection with the scam where Adolphus and Reny Eapen of JK International Manpower Consultants were named as accused.
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