Mohammed Sufiyan from Telangana and three men from Karnataka were reportedly cheated by a YouTube channel run by Faizal Khan for joining the Russian army in Ukraine. They were being promised jobs as army security helpers in Russia.
Currently, the four men are stuck near the war-torn Ukraine border in Russia fighting in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war against their will. They have urged the Bharatiya government to rescue them.
On December 23, 2023, Mohammed Sufiyan along with three others flew to Russia. They were promised of getting the job of a security helper but they were forcefully sent to the frontline to fight the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
The scam came forward after one of the helpless men, Mohammed Sufiyan from Telangana, sent an SOS message to his family saying that they had become victims of a fake army job racket and requesting that they should be immediately rescued.
He disclosed how more than a dozen youths were deceived and brought to Russia where they were formulated in Wagner and forced to fight for Russia.
Sufiyan disclosed that they were forced to take part in Russia’s war with Ukraine against their habit after an agent called ‘Baba’ promised they would serve as army assistants. He ran away and sought help from the embassy to come back to Bharat.
Sufiyan and the other men were working in Dubai earlier, where they earned between Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000. The agent promised them earnings of Rs 2 lakh in Russia. For the security helper job, each of them was charged Rs 3.5 lakh by the agent.
Imran, the brother of Sufiyan told media, “My brother was taken by Baba Blocks Company, which has offices in Dubai, Delhi, and Mumbai. The first batch went out on November 12, 2023. Over 21 youths were sent and Rs 3 lakh was taken from each one of them. In Russia they signed an agreement on November 13, 2023 and the agents told the youth that they would get the job as army helpers. However, they were eventually drafted into the army and were deployed inside the Ukrainian borders.”
Imran added, “The agents gave the wrong translations of the documents to them. They were told that it was the job of army helpers. They were taken for military training two days later. Even when the youths protested, the Bharatiya agents again misguided them and said that it was only part of the training and they wouldn’t be sent to the frontlines”.
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