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Indian-Origin Man In US Jailed For Nearly 4 Years For $1.5 Million Fraud
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Indian-Origin Man In US Jailed For Nearly 4 Years For $1.5 Million Fraud

[ad_1] The man possessed at least 53 false identification documents. (Representational)New York: A 41-year-old Indian-origin man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing false identity documents and operating an unlicensed money transfer business that led to USD 1.5 million in losses to victims.Vimalkumar Trivedi of Plainfield, Indiana, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison, a statement issued here on Friday said.US District Court Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt imposed the sentence and ordered Trivedi's supervision by the US Probation Office for three years following his release from federal prison.Authorities said Trivedi was part of an imposter scam that used scare tactics and identity theft to scam innocent victims out of hard-earned...
Indian-Origin Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Indians To US
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Indian-Origin Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Indians To US

[ad_1] The man was a resident of Brampton in Canada. (Representational)New York: A 40-year-old Indian-origin man, extradited from Canada to the United States, has pleaded guilty to smuggling Indians to the US between March 2020 to March 2021, officials here said.Simranjit Singh was taken into custody on June 28, 2022, in Ontario, and was extradited from Canada to the US on March 30, 2023, United States Attorney's Office Northern District of New York said in a press release."In pleading guilty, Singh admitted that from at least March of 2020 through March of 2021, he facilitated the smuggling of numerous Indian nationals from Canada into the United States, via Cornwall Island and the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in the St Lawrence River region, for profit," the release said on Satu...