Chengannur : The former Hindu Aykavedi Alappuzha District Secretary and BJP leader Sanu S Nair(48) surrender to police in Chengannur after going into hiding over crores of rupees he swindled from several job aspirants promising them employment with Food Corporation of India, Railways and such government establishments.
According to sources, 35 people have been defrauded of a total of Rs 4 crores, with each paying between Rs 10 - Rs 35 lakhs. Sanu is a RSS worker who has also been the former Mulakuzha Panchayat President.
Police registered their initial case based on complaint from Nitin G Krishna and his sister, residents of Mambra in Pathanamthitta Municipality. Police booked Chenganoor Karakkad Malayil Sanu N Nayir , Budhanoor Tahavelil Rajesh Kumar and Lenin Mathew from Thaikudam in Ernakulam’s Vyttilla on 25 May. More of such complaints arrived at the station since.
Police on Monday seized Sanu’s luxury car from his residence in Karakkad. Following this, he turned himself in at police station in Chengannur Thursday morning. A hunt for the two others is underway.
The complaints state that Sanu promised he would arrange jobs using political clout that comprised BJP’s national leaders and the Union ministers. Sanu was member of Mlakuzha panchayat earlier and had contested for Arikkara Block Division in the LSG elections but lost. The victims said they informed BJP leadership of the fraud but failed to get any response.
To win trust of the aspirants, Sanu introduced Lenin Mathew as member of FCI’s Central Board. Also, he met with the job aspirants reaching them in his Innova car fitted the FCI name-board. To deepen their trust of him Sanu also flaunted his pictures posed with several BJP’s national leaders and union ministers/
The modus operandi was to summon job aspirants, on pretext of interview, to posh hotels in Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai , Delhi and adjoining places. He would stay there for days together at the job aspirant's expense, collect cash and then vanish. To those who called up seeking their money back, he threatened to incriminate them in false cases.
