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06-16-2008, 09:44 AM #1
Immigration racket run by Indian busted in US
Immigration racket run by Indian busted in US
Posted online: Monday , June 16, 2008 at 02:52:06
Updated: Monday , June 16, 2008 at 02:52:06
Washington, June 16: With the arrest of seven Indians, US authorities have claimed to have busted an immigration racket run by an IT company owner who charged tens of thousands of dollars from expatriates by fraudulently sponsoring their H-1B work visas.
The alleged kingpin, Nilesh Dasondi, 41, was arrested last week on multiple counts of visa fraud involving his company Cygate Software and Consulting Inc. that runs offices in India and Canada.
A naturalised US citizen, Dasondi, who is also member of the Edison township board in New Jersey, was released after posting a USD800,000 bail but must remain under home confinement with electronic monitoring.
According to court papers cited in Newsday daily, Dasondi is accused of filing federal work visa and immigration documents for six people who did not work for his company between 2003 and 2007, authorities said. All the six have been arrested.
In exchange, they made payments to Dasondi’s company of more than USD850,000, authorities said. The money was used to support phony payroll disbursements back to the people, fund tax payments and, in some cases, pay for health insurance, authorities said.
Dasondi, however, kept the remainder of the cash after the so-called “running the payrollâ€Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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06-16-2008, 02:22 PM #2
This is so widespread that its hardly news. That he was actually busted for it though is big news. Only took 4 years to get him.
Now if they would only go after the big Indian players in IT we might see a few hundred thousand jobs return to the US.
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06-16-2008, 02:32 PM #3
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I gather it would be asking too much for this guy upon conviction, to be stripped of his US Citizenship and deported back to India...
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06-16-2008, 06:55 PM #4Originally Posted by NoBuenoJoin our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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