Maharashtra resident loses Rs 5.7 lakh in fraudulent Taiwan job scheme
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- Sagar Pujari, a resident of Maharashtra, filed a cheating complaint at Warasia police station after a travel agent took Rs 21,000 as a processing fee and Rs 5.5 lakh as a package fee for a promised work visa and job in Taiwan.
- The agent instructed Pujari to travel first to Thailand, claimed an Australian visa was needed for entry to Taiwan, and after Pujari arrived in Taiwan he remained unemployed for nearly two months before the agent stopped paying his hotel and food expenses on 25 September; Pujari later learned his visa extension documents were forged when he surrendered to Taiwanese authorities at the airport.
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