Mumbai: A 42-year-old Mira Road resident was arrested by crime branch unit 2 on Tuesday for allegedly duping five job aspirants of Rs 78.5 lakh after promising to secure them overseas employment and permanent visas for the USA and New Zealand. To win their trust, he sent them fake foreign visas, air tickets and offer letters. Most of those swindled were from Gujarat.The alleged conman, Mohammed Khan, was arrested earlier by Thane and Haryana police in two similar cases. Police are now looking for his aide, Zarina, who used to run an office in Mira Road. They suspect the two had conned many more gullible targets. Khan was produced in court and remanded in police custody. The fraud unravelled after five clients of a commission agent, Ishwar Prajapati, discovered that their flight tickets and visas for the US and New Zealand were fake. They alerted Prajapati, who lodged a police complaint.According to police, Khan and Zarina allegedly periodically sent forged documents to their victims and invented excuses to delay their departure. —S Ahmed Ali
