The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) forwarded the Bhutan Employment Overseas (BEO) case to the Thimphu District Court today. The OAG charged eleven BEO staff including two proprietors for forgery, larceny by deception and, aiding and abetting.
According to the investigation report of the OAG, the two proprietors of BEO are charged for three counts of the forgery of bank balance and payslip and, larceny by deception for illegally deducting Nu 7,500 as translation fee from each student.
Six staff were charged with the double count of aiding and abetting in the falsification of documents of students while two of them with a single charge of aiding and abetting. One of the staff is charged with making duplicate bank seal and using it on a false bank statement.
The OAG will be charging four of BEO’s employees separately after getting their representatives confirmed through the Power of Attorney to represent them at the court. Currently, they are in Australia and Japan.
Meanwhile, the OAG dropped the charges against the Director-General of the Department of Employment and Human Resources (DoEHR) under the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources. He was accused of alleged official misconduct earlier. The OAG stated that there is no specific failure on the part of the DoHER since there is no record of change in the principal-agent or record of charging extra from students as the complaint lodged by students involved in the Learn and Earn Programme in Japan.
Thimphu Police forwarded the BEO case related to Learn and Earn Programme in Japan to the OAG on October 23.
Pema Tshewang
