By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Information associated with Schengen Visa of 64 other folks having a excessive menace of migration have “disappeared” from the French Embassy right here in a large fraud allegedly dedicated through its two former staff booked through the CBI just lately, officers stated Monday.
Former embassy officers Shubham Shokeen and Aarti Mandal allegedly made Rs 32,00,000, charging Rs 50,000 in step with visa through clearing recordsdata of questionable applicants, they stated.
It’s alleged that Shokeen and Mandal treated 484 visa recordsdata between January 1 and Might 6, of which 64 recordsdata pertained to people having a “excessive menace” of migration, like younger farmers or unemployed individuals from Punjab who had by no means travelled ahead of and lacked the profile to carry a Schengen Visa.
The company suspects that Mandal and Shokeen allegedly destroyed the paperwork and recordsdata from the visa division to go away no lines of this illicit job, they stated.
The CBI on Friday ultimate performed searches in Delhi, Patiala, Gurdaspur and Jammu, all through which paperwork and digital proof like laptops, cellphones and suspicious passports and many others., were recovered.
The company has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal, each former staff on the Visa Division of the Embassy of France in New Delhi, dedicated visa fraud in a conspiracy from January to Might this 12 months.
The CBI has alleged that 3 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 solid letters purportedly written through Maersk Fleet Control and Generation India Personal Restricted, Bangalore to the Consulate Common of France, Bengaluru, for issuing access 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 once additional alleged that during pursuance to the stated prison conspiracy, candidates from Punjab and Jammu submitted pretend and solid letters purportedly written through a non-public corporate based totally at Bengaluru to the Consulate Common of France, Bengaluru, for issuing access visas for his or her becoming a member of non-public corporations in Port-Le-Havre, France,” a CBI spokesperson had stated in a observation.
The CBI has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal facilitated their visa for Rs 50,000 each and every with out the data and approval of the visa division Head on the embassy and displaced the information.
NEW DELHI: Information associated with Schengen Visa of 64 other folks having a excessive menace of migration have “disappeared” from the French Embassy right here in a large fraud allegedly dedicated through its two former staff booked through the CBI just lately, officers stated Monday.
Former embassy officers Shubham Shokeen and Aarti Mandal allegedly made Rs 32,00,000, charging Rs 50,000 in step with visa through clearing recordsdata of questionable applicants, they stated.
It’s alleged that Shokeen and Mandal treated 484 visa recordsdata between January 1 and Might 6, of which 64 recordsdata pertained to people having a “excessive menace” of migration, like younger farmers or unemployed individuals from Punjab who had by no means travelled ahead of and lacked the profile to carry a Schengen Visa.
The company suspects that Mandal and Shokeen allegedly destroyed the paperwork and recordsdata from the visa division to go away no lines of this illicit job, they stated.
The CBI on Friday ultimate performed searches in Delhi, Patiala, Gurdaspur and Jammu, all through which paperwork and digital proof like laptops, cellphones and suspicious passports and many others., were recovered.
The company has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal, each former staff on the Visa Division of the Embassy of France in New Delhi, dedicated visa fraud in a conspiracy from January to Might this 12 months.
The CBI has alleged that 3 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 solid letters purportedly written through Maersk Fleet Control and Generation India Personal Restricted, Bangalore to the Consulate Common of France, Bengaluru, for issuing access 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 once additional alleged that during pursuance to the stated prison conspiracy, candidates from Punjab and Jammu submitted pretend and solid letters purportedly written through a non-public corporate based totally at Bengaluru to the Consulate Common of France, Bengaluru, for issuing access visas for his or her becoming a member of non-public corporations in Port-Le-Havre, France,” a CBI spokesperson had stated in a observation.
The CBI has alleged that Shokeen and Mandal facilitated their visa for Rs 50,000 each and every with out the data and approval of the visa division Head on the embassy and displaced the information.