Person Arrested For Submitting Fake Documents.
Beware Of Fraud
Rohit Kumar, Age 30, origin from West Bengal, is charged with six counts of submitting false and fraudulent immigration documents. Person Arrested For.
In The USA as per law each count of fraud documents is punishable by a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, as well as a maximum fine of USD 2,50,000. Each count of aggravated identity theft is punishable by a sentence of 2 years, which must be served consecutively to any other term imposed, as well as a maximum fine of USD 2,50,000.
According to documents and statements made in court, Rohit Kumar worked for many years in India for one of the legitimate information technology companies in the world.
This company contracted with an electric utility company that was based in New Jersey. Mr Kumar used to the Indian national workers to enter the United States under the H-1B visa program and then work at the New Jersey company. Few of these Indian national workers were stationed at a nuclear power plant in southern New Jersey, while remaining foreign workers were stationed at the company’s other locations in and around New Jersey.
On several occasions between 2017 and 2018, Mr Kumar created and presented false and fraudulent documents to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service in support of the H-1B visa applications for the Indian national workers. The documents purported to contain the authorised signature of a contracting manager of the said company, but the contracting manager never signed or authorised a signature on these documents, the United States Attorney Philip Sellinger added.