Goemkarponn desk
OLD GOA: Old Goa police have arrested Albino Sequeira for duping many persons on the pretext of providing services of Portuguese passports.
As per a police complaint by Abdul Khan, a resident of Margao, the accused Sequeira and his wife received money from the complainant and others on the pretext of providing Portuguese birth registration and Portuguese passport.
“After receiving money, the accused deceived and cheated them without providing any such passport,” the police informed while adding that around 50-60 persons from across Goa are suspected of having been cheated for lakhs of rupees.
The police further said the accused, Sequeira, had been operating for the last 8-10 years and had set up his own mechanism to make Portuguese birth registration and Portuguese passport. Also, he was instrumental in providing jobs abroad, mainly in European and American countries.
Initially, few cases were successfully done, but in the last 4-5 years, the accused is alleged to have taken lakhs of rupees from around 50-60 persons on the pretext of providing Portuguese passports and jobs abroad but failed to do so.
Old Goa police have been tracking his movements for the last few months as he was travelling in other states and also shifting residences in Goa. He was finally tracked and apprehended on Tuesday, and further investigations are underway.
