{"id":511188,"date":"2026-01-20T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=511188"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:11:53","slug":"promised-job-not-provided-housed-in-a-cowshed-woman-from-india-complains-of-deception-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/promised-job-not-provided-housed-in-a-cowshed-woman-from-india-complains-of-deception-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Promised Job Not Provided, Housed in a Cowshed. Woman From India Complains of Deception in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A resident of India\u2019s Gujarat state says she has become a victim of fraud. According to her, she came to Belarus for work but never received a job and is now unable to return home because she has no money.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, named <b>Meena Joshi<\/b>, told her story to the Gujarati outlet <b>Divya Bhaskar<\/b>, Bhaskar English reports.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi, a widow with three children, says an agent promised her a job in Belarus packing fruit with a salary of 70,000\u201380,000 rupees a month ($770\u2013$870). To pay the agent and travel to Belarus, she borrowed about $6,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the woman, she did not receive the promised job or salary in Belarus. She claims she was housed in a cowshed 350\u2013400 kilometers from Minsk. In a video, the woman says she is barely surviving and wants to return to India, but has no money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of India\u2019s Gujarat state says she has become a victim of fraud. According to her, she came to Belarus for work but never received a job and is now unable to return home because she has no money. The woman, named Meena Joshi, told her story to the Gujarati outlet Divya Bhaskar, Bhaskar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6970985ebb6d4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Promised Job Not Provided, Housed in a Cowshed. Woman From India Complains of Deception in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}