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July 3, 2010 | Delhi police arrests three in fake Canadian visa racket | New Delhi: The Delhi police has taken into its custody three people, including a Nigerian national for making fake visas and giving away forged employment letters from a Canadian company. A case has been registered under cheating and forgery
against the trio identified as Gautam Kumar, Riya Rozy and Agu Rufus arrested
from their West Delhi residence. "We have registered a case of cheating and forgery
and during the investigation, the main accused, Gautam Kumar, who is a resident
of Narayana, Delhi, and his associate Riya Rozy, who is a resident of Dwarka and
originally belonging to Darjeeling, West Bengal; we arrested them from Dwarka
area," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) H. G. S. Dhaliwal. "Following
their interrogation, their third associate Agu Rufus, who was living temporarily
in Uttam Nagar, but originally is from Nigeria, has also been arrested," he added.
They were arrested after police conducted investigations following a complaint
filed by the Canadian High Commission in Chandigarh, and another complaint made
by a victim of the fake racket in New Delhi. "We have recovered 55 passports,
21 scanned visas, visa slips and 3 lakh (300,000) rupees in cash from them. The
passports are of Indian nationals, Nepalese nationals and Bangladeshi nationals.
Eleven visa slips are mainly Canadian visa slips," said Dhaliwal. "In this case,
we also received complaint from the Canadian High Commission from the Chandigarh
office," he added. Preliminary investigations revealed that the accused had given
an advertisement on behalf of a fake company by the name of Sea, Food and Farms
Limited, which claimed to be looking for candidates hailing from south India.
The prospective employees were then provided with fake visas and employment letters
via the Internet after the payment of 800 dollars in processing fees. The accused
charged Rs 1.5 - 2 million per applicant, and disappeared after receiving the
money. |
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