10 Indians indicted in US visa fraud conspiracyTen Indian nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to carry out staged armed robberi...
11 Apr, 2026, 10.54 AM IST
Two Indian-origin brothers who backed FBI chief Kash Patel face 400-year jail term in US: Here's what they didTwo brothers of Indian origin have been convicted in the US for a massive criminal operation. Their scheme involved visa fraud, exploiting ...
13 Mar, 2026, 01.07 PM IST
Indian-origin businessman and four Louisiana law enforcement officers indicted in U visa fraud and bribery caseA federal grand jury indicted five individuals, including an Indian-origin businessman and four Louisiana law enforcement officers, on 62 c...
18 Jul, 2025, 12.23 PM IST
Indian students in US sentenced in multi-million dollar fraud schemes targeting elderly nativesTwo Indian students in the US, Kishan Rajeshkumar Patel and Moinuddin Mohammed, received prison sentences for separate fraud schemes target...
19 Jun, 2025, 10.40 AM IST
Indian-origin man in US admits to visa scam via fake robberiesAccording to a statement issued by the District Attorney's (DA) office in Massachusetts beginning March 2023, Ram Patel (37) and his allege...
23 May, 2025, 12.09 PM IST
CBI conducts raids in Punjab in French Embassy Visa fraud caseThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at the premises of an agent in Ludhiana as part of an ongoing investigation in...
25 Aug, 2023, 04.43 PM IST
Visa Fraud: Files of 64 people with high risk of migration 'disappear' from French EmbassyFormer embassy officials Shubham Shokeen and Aarti Mandal allegedly made Rs 32,00,000, charging Rs 50,000 per visa by clearing files of que...
19 Dec, 2022, 01.18 PM IST
Cloudgen pleads guilty to H-1B fraudCloudgen, a consulting and strategic solutions company, pleaded guilty through its representative Jomon Chakkalakkal, to conspiring to comm...
02 Jun, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
Indian man arrested on charges of USD 21 million H-1B visa fraud conspiracyAccording to court documents, Ashish Sawhney, 48, allegedly used four corporations to orchestrate the improper submission of fraudulent app...
22 Aug, 2020, 09.08 AM IST
Indian national arrested in $21 million H-1B visa fraud conspiracy in USThe court said that Sawhney submitted or caused to be submitted H-1B visa application materials stating that the foreign workers named in t...
21 Aug, 2020, 02.35 PM IST
Fugitive now in China sentenced in 'birth tourism' schemeProsecutors say Chen, 35, was among more than a dozen people charged with operating a company that helped wealthy Chinese citizens and even...
01 Jul, 2020, 11.34 AM IST
3 Indian-origin consultants charged in US with H-1B visa fraudThe H-1B visa programme, popular among Indian technology professionals, allows foreign workers to obtain temporary authorisation to live an...
02 Apr, 2019, 05.26 PM IST
Indian-American jailed to 9 years for $25 million fraud scheme in USAmit Chaudhry who was sentenced yesterday by a US court in Virginia, has also been ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution , pleaded gui...
03 Mar, 2017, 01.29 PM IST
Two Indian-American brothers jailed for 7 years for H1B visa fraudEach was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, one count of conspiracy to harbour illegal aliens and four counts of wi...
05 Jun, 2016, 01.37 PM IST
Several Indians indicted in fake marriages and U-visa fraud cases in USInvestigating authorities said these people would enter into a fraud marriage with the citizens of the US for the purpose of entering the c...
20 May, 2016, 01.43 PM IST
4 Indian-Americans charged with H-1B visa fraud in USThe couple -- Sunitha Guntipally, Venkat Guntipally - along with two others Pratap "Bob" Kondamoori and Sandhya Ramireddi have been charged...
09 May, 2016, 12.09 PM IST
Indian American brothers convicted in H1B visa fraud caseDuring the six-day trial, federal prosecutors presented evidence at trial that as part of their scheme, the Nanda brothers recruited foreig...
14 Nov, 2015, 10.37 AM IST