Visa Fraud: Files of 64 individuals with high-risk of migration ‘disappear’ from French Embassy
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NEW DELHI: Files associated to Schengen Visa of 64 individuals having a excessive danger of migration have “disappeared” from the French Embassy right here in an enormous fraud allegedly dedicated by its two former workers booked by the CBI lately, officers mentioned Monday.
Former embassy officers Shubham Shokeen and Aarti Mandal allegedly made Rs 32,00,000, charging Rs 50,000 per visa by clearing information of questionable candidates, they mentioned.
It is alleged that Shokeen and Mandal dealt with 484 visa information between January 1 and May 6, of which 64 information pertained to people having a “high risk” of migration, like younger farmers or unemployed individuals from Punjab who had by no means travelled earlier than and lacked the profile to carry a Schengen Visa.
The company suspects that Mandal and Shokeen allegedly destroyed the paperwork and information from the visa division to depart no traces of this illicit exercise, they mentioned.
The CBI on Friday final carried out searches in Delhi, Patiala, Gurdaspur and Jammu, throughout which paperwork and digital proof like laptops, cell phones and suspicious passports and many others., have been recovered.
The company has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal, each former employees on the Visa Department of the Embassy of France in New Delhi, dedicated visa fraud in a conspiracy from January to May this 12 months.
The CBI has alleged that three different accused booked within the FIR–Navjot Singh from Jammu and Kashmir and Chetan Sharma and Satwinder Singh Purewal, each from Punjab had allegedly submitted pretend and cast letters purportedly written by Maersk Fleet Management and Technology India Private Limited, Bangalore to the Consulate General of France, Bengaluru, for issuing entry visas for his or her becoming a member of at Emma Maersk, Edith Maersk, and Munkebo Maersk, respectively at Port-Le-Havre, France.
“It was further alleged that in pursuance to the said criminal conspiracy, applicants from Punjab and Jammu submitted fake and forged letters purportedly written by a private company based at Bengaluru to the Consulate General of France, Bengaluru, for issuing entry visas for their joining private companies in Port-Le-Havre, France,” a CBI spokesperson had mentioned in an announcement.
The CBI has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal facilitated their visa for Rs 50,000 every with out the data and approval of the visa division Head on the embassy and displaced the data.
NEW DELHI: Files associated to Schengen Visa of 64 individuals having a excessive danger of migration have “disappeared” from the French Embassy right here in an enormous fraud allegedly dedicated by its two former workers booked by the CBI lately, officers mentioned Monday.
Former embassy officers Shubham Shokeen and Aarti Mandal allegedly made Rs 32,00,000, charging Rs 50,000 per visa by clearing information of questionable candidates, they mentioned.
It is alleged that Shokeen and Mandal dealt with 484 visa information between January 1 and May 6, of which 64 information pertained to people having a “high risk” of migration, like younger farmers or unemployed individuals from Punjab who had by no means travelled earlier than and lacked the profile to carry a Schengen Visa.
The company suspects that Mandal and Shokeen allegedly destroyed the paperwork and information from the visa division to depart no traces of this illicit exercise, they mentioned.
The CBI on Friday final carried out searches in Delhi, Patiala, Gurdaspur and Jammu, throughout which paperwork and digital proof like laptops, cell phones and suspicious passports and many others., have been recovered.
The company has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal, each former employees on the Visa Department of the Embassy of France in New Delhi, dedicated visa fraud in a conspiracy from January to May this 12 months.
The CBI has alleged that three different accused booked within the FIR–Navjot Singh from Jammu and Kashmir and Chetan Sharma and Satwinder Singh Purewal, each from Punjab had allegedly submitted pretend and cast letters purportedly written by Maersk Fleet Management and Technology India Private Limited, Bangalore to the Consulate General of France, Bengaluru, for issuing entry visas for his or her becoming a member of at Emma Maersk, Edith Maersk, and Munkebo Maersk, respectively at Port-Le-Havre, France.
“It was further alleged that in pursuance to the said criminal conspiracy, applicants from Punjab and Jammu submitted fake and forged letters purportedly written by a private company based at Bengaluru to the Consulate General of France, Bengaluru, for issuing entry visas for their joining private companies in Port-Le-Havre, France,” a CBI spokesperson had mentioned in an announcement.
The CBI has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal facilitated their visa for Rs 50,000 every with out the data and approval of the visa division Head on the embassy and displaced the data.
