Bhubaneswar: A Lookout Circular has been issued against the directors of a company who are accused in a job scam.
The Lookout Circular has been issued against Bhiku Bisoi and Manikandan, directors of Kinney Infotech Pvt Ltd, who are being probed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhubaneswar.
Bisoi and Manikandan allegedly collected money from a large number of jobseekers by promising them jobs/Work From Home and duped about a hundred people to the tune of Rs 1 crore.
According to the probe, in 2021, Bisoi, who is from Ganjam district in Odisha, and Manikandan, who is from Chennai, opened an office at Bhanjanagar and employed some agents to persuade people to invest in their company assuring them jobs/Work From Home.
They allegedly collected Rs 1 crore, shut the office and fled.
It is suspected that the accused are hiding in Malaysia.