KATHMANDU: The Metropolitan Police Crime Division said it recently arrested two persons for swindling people aspiring to go abroad with fake promises. A person has been arrested for swindling three persons of Rs 1.5 million each assuring them of lucrative jobs in the United States. A team deployed from the MPCD arrested Bhag Chandra Mahar (47), a permanent resident of Chhinchu VDC-2 of Surkhet, currently residing in Balaju, KMC-16. He was operator of Teku-based Central Investigation Security Force Pvt. Ltd., according to police. Mahar had assured Rajesh Roka, Thaman Bahadur Roka and Dilip Budhathoki from Myagdi that he would send them to the US for employment within one month and charged each of them Rs 1.5 million. After a month, however, Mahar said he could not send them to the US and handed each of them a cheque in return. The trio visited the banks to cash the cheques, but the banks said the concerned accounts did not have sufficient balance. Then the victims then had filed a complaint against Mahar at the MPCD. Held for swindling abroad study aspirant Meanwhile, an educational consultancy operator was arrested on charge of defrauding an abroad study aspirant of Rs 65,000. Hariram Acharya (36) from Khoplang VDC-2 of Gorkha district, currently residing in Basundhara of the Capital, was arrested from his World Wide Education Information Centre Pvt. Ltd., located at Ghantaghar, KMC-32. A team deployed from the MPCD had nabbed him on Tuesday. According to police, Acharya had taken Rs 65,000 and passport from Govinda Raj Dahal, a resident of Triyuga Municipality-8 of Udayapur district, assuring him to send to Canada for foreign employment. After Acharya could not provide him an offer letter as assured, Dahal had asked him to return the money. But later, Acharya had handed him a letter with the name of the Northern College. Dahal had then questioned authenticity of the letter and Acharya had provided him another letter in the name of Pures College of Technology. Dahal then grew more suspicious toward Acharya wondering how a same person could get offer letters from two colleges simultaneously. He demanded that Acharya refund the charged money, which the latter apparently denied. Then, Dahal had concluded that he was deceived and filed a complaint at the Ministry of Education against the consultancy. The Ministry had written to the MPCD to look into the case. Both of the suspects have been sent to the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu for further investigations and actions.