Indian made big in fraud

[idune]

Another case of India link to credit card fraud in UK
Agencies Posted: May 14, 2009 at 1401 hrs

London In yet another case of international bank cards fraud, customers at a petrol pump in the city of Leicester last week found that their card details were used to withdraw money from various places across the world, including India.
The police had confirmed latest cases this week and launched an inquiry after receiving several reports victims whose details had been used to make cash withdrawals across the world.

Several people were contacted by banks over the weekend to be told that withdrawals had been made from their accounts in Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States.

The banks said that thousands more may have fallen victim.

Most of the victims used a Shell petrol pump on Uppingham Road in Leicester. A Shell spokesman said the company had launched an investigation into allegations of card fraud.

British security officials have been grappling with card-cloning, by which card details are surreptitiously recorded during transactions at petrol pumps and supermarkets and emailed across the globe for illegal withdrawals from ATM.

Last year, several such cases have come to light when British consumers found that money was withdrawn from their accounts from Mumbai, Chennai and other parts of India, besides other places around the world.

Petrol pumps have been the most vulnerable to such scams. In some instances, individuals working at British petrol pumps had alleged links with Tamil Tigers and disclosed customers' card details to withdraw money abroad to fund activities in Sri Lanka.

HSBC, whose customers became victims of the latest fraud, said it would closely monitor the accounts of all people who have used their card at locations where fraud had occurred.

"At a busy retail outlet like a petrol station, criminal gangs can get thousands of card details per day," Bank spokesman Tim Pie said.

Another case of India link to credit card fraud in UK - Express India

 

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Illegal Indian immigrants convicted for biggest UK visa fraud
June 4th, 2009 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI -

London, June 4 (ANI): Three illegal Indian immigrants have been jailed for their role in Britain’s biggest visa fraud. Jatinder Kumar Sharma, 44, and his two wives - Rakhi Shahi, and Neelam Sharma - helped more than a thousand illegal immigrants into the country. Out of them, only 41 have been deported, The Telegraph reports.

The trio became so confident in fooling government officials using false paperwork that Shahi, 31, even offered her services on a no-win, no-fee basis, jurors heard.The three fraudsters, all illegal immigrants themselves, submitted hundreds of visa applications backed by bogus documents, which were rubber-stamped by the Home Office.

Jailing them for a total of 19 years, Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson said: “Various criticisms have been made of the actions of the agencies responsible for checking those documents. Those criticisms are plainly well founded in my view. The checks were woefully inadequate and frequently non-existent. You saw the weaknesses in those systems and dishonestly exploited them.”

Shahi was jailed for eight years after jurors found her guilty of conspiracy to defraud, handling criminal property and immigration offences at Isleworth Crown Court.

Jatinder Sharma, 44, a solicitor, pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy before the trial and was jailed for seven years.

Neelam Sharma, 38, was jailed for four years after being convicted of handling some of the money that poured into the business but cleared of conspiracy to defraud and immigration offences.

Most of those who used the scam were from India but around 150 were from Pakistan, raising fears of a possible terror route.

Working for cash under the company name Univisas, they ran a “fraud factory” creating counterfeit documents, including degree certificates, tax forms and CVs.

Between October 2006 and May last year, Univas submitted 980 applications to the Home Office and raked in 1.5 million pounds in two years, charging around 4,000 pounds per client.

The enterprise, run from their home in Southall, London, was at the centre of a web of false colleges and corrupt employees of genuine institutions who provided bogus documents.

Prosecutor Francis Sheridan said the case presented a “damning indictment” of failures by the UK Border Agency, Home Office and Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. (ANI)

Illegal Indian immigrants convicted for biggest UK visa fraud

 

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Indian American doctor couple charged with $31 mn fraud
July 18th, 2009 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS -
By Arun Kumar

Washington, July 18 (IANS) An Indian-American doctor couple in Houston has been charged with illegally distributing 1.3 million tablets of a drug and defrauding several public and private health insurance companies of $31 million by filing false claims.

According to the indictment returned by a federal grand jury Thursday, Dr. Arun Sharma and his wife, Dr. Kiran Sharma, both 54, operated the Allergy, Asthma, Arthritis and Pain Centers located on Cole Street in Webster, Texas, and another on Garth Road in Baytown, Texas.

The indictment alleges that Dr. Arun Sharma routinely saw in excess of 70 patients per day and that he routinely wrote prescriptions for hydrocodone that were not for a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash payments, the Federal Bureau fo Investigation said in a press release.

Dr. Sharma allegedly received the cash payments for his hydrocodone prescriptions directly from the patient and he instructed his patients to take the prescriptions to certain pharmacies to be filled.

Arun and Kiran Sharma, according to the indictment, stored large amounts of cash received the sale of hydrocodone prescriptions at their home. Kiran Sharma allegedly transported large amounts of cash received from the sale of the hydrocodone prescriptions to two safe deposit boxes - one each at Bank of America and Prosperity Bank.

The doctors also were charged with specific counts of illegal drug distribution for hydrocodone prescriptions written to specific patients.

Both doctors are also accused of conspiring to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private healthcare insurers including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Aetna, Cigna and United Healthcare of more than $31 million for facet joint injections and other medical procedures that were allegedly never performed.

The court has ordered summons to be issued directing the Sharmas to appear in federal court for arraignment on August 3, 2009.

Upon conviction, each of the 17 health care fraud counts and the healthcare conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in a federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

The drug conspiracy and each of the 10 drug distribution counts carries a penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Parole has been abolished in the federal prison system.

Indian American doctor couple charged with $31 mn fraud

 

[M_Saint]

In today's world finance, economy, media and some of these indian frauds has clear defense implication. Specially when indians use fraud to gain position in US and then try to influence US policy against other countries. It is only fair to see how some of these indians used fraud to gain and abuesed their power position.

Lemme cite couple of the facts of those low level Dhoties/Curry's magnitude of fraud. In order to grab Fed/State contracts in U.S, they tend to expose as enlightened Techi, IT Super Stars; whereas in reality their finished products are no where near at even 2nd world's quality. After bribing/smooth talking to their way in, their Reps start suit and find hard to go forward. So, look for partner and guess what who provides them the helping hand to commit nadir of fraud? People of a country that doesn't have any friendly neighbor like them.

 

[Skies]

OK, here is defence 101:-

By committing fraud, you guys earn money then you use it to buy weapons to use against PAK, Bangladeshis. Do you see how it relates to your defence acquisition now?

Yah, Indians are flattering to USA and Israel and others. They are not real friend of any country. They fraud with us like Farakka dam and many others. Also trying for another fraud by taking transit in exchange of giving worthless transit to Nepal or Bhutan.

Indians are good flatter. And Awami govt. is their obedient stooge.