A travel agent and his five accomplices in Nerul made away with cash and passports of several aspirants who had fallen for their fraudulent scheme of getting them jobs in Kuwait. The agency had asked people to fork out money and submit their passports for ‘verification’ purposes, as part of the procedure in ‘applying’ to a multinational company.

The accused have been identified by only their first names Shabir, Shakil, Shaheen, Wasim, Izail, and Bilal from Global Tours and Travels in Sector 23 of Seawoods, Nerul. Shabir is the main accused in the case. The agency promised the aspirants, who were mostly from lower income families, a job in Kharafi National, a Kuwait-based multinational organisation.