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Admission letters from a Kyiv medical college that did not exist: ₹60 lakh, two agents, one arrest in Chennai
In August 2025, Chennai's Central Crime Branch arrested a 37-year-old woman, reported as Ramya Madhavan, in connection with a medical-admission fraud that Careers360 says ran into ₹60 lakh. An accomplice, reported as Antony Das, was named alongside her.
The complainant, a woman from Kanyakumari identified as Rosemary, had paid ₹60 lakh in 2022 for her daughter's medical admission. The assurance was false; no seat existed. After she asked for her money back, ₹29.50 lakh was returned, but ₹31.88 lakh was not, and she filed a complaint on 27 August 2024. The arrest followed almost a year later, on 19 August 2025. The reporting describes the wider scheme as faking admission letters from a non-existent Kyiv medical college and duping around 17 students. The accused are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The detail that matters is "non-existent". Every recognised medical school in the world is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools, which is free to search and is the same list the NMC relies on. A college that is not in it cannot lead to a licence to practise in India, and in this case did not lead anywhere at all. The letters looked like letters; the institution behind them was fiction.
Timing matters too. Ukraine was at war throughout 2022; universities there were evacuating foreign students, not enrolling new ones through Chennai agents. A family under pressure to secure a seat is exactly the audience for a story that ignores the obvious.
Two checks would have stopped this before any money moved. First, look the college up on TrustMBBS or the World Directory — if it is not there, stop. Second, write to the university's admissions office using an address on its own website and ask it to confirm the offer letter. A fictitious college fails both in minutes. And note the recovery arithmetic: even with an arrest, more than half of the money was still outstanding three years later. Prevention is the only reliable refund.
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This is a news-sourced case summary written by the TrustMBBS team, not a first-person account; see the sources above. They reflect one person's experience and are not a verdict on any institution. Report your own: Report a scam or tell your story.