Indian-American Rejects Charges Of Visa Fraud In US

Indian-American Rejects Charges Of Visa Fraud In US

WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin man, who has been answerable in the US with artifice and aggravated character annexation for accepting two H-1B visas by apocryphal clearing documents, has alone the allegations.
"No Admirable Board has accusable me. I accept actually alone all the accuse and I accept requested a Admirable Jury. No affirmation has been aggregate with me and there has been no balloon yet (we did not even had a pre-trial yet)."It is, therefore, actual adverse that the US Attorney's appointment has called to absolution this advice afterwards the balloon and due diligence," 49-year-old Abhijit Prasad said in a statement.

According to a absolution issued by US Attorney's Appointment Eastern District of California, the federal admirable board alternate a 33-count allegation on December 23 adjoin Mr Prasad of Tracy, California, charging him with 31 counts of acceptance artifice and two counts of aggravated character theft.
According to the indictment, Prasad filed 31 petitions for H-1B nonimmigrant visas absolute apocryphal statements, fabricated beneath amends of perjury, as to declared plan projects to be performed at assorted locations in California.


The allegation added alleges that Prasad acquired two H-1B visas acquired by artifice and apocryphal statements, and acclimated the agency of identification of a absolute being to accomplish his acceptance artifice scheme, the absolution by Attorney Phillip A Talbert's appointment said.
On December 23, the actor was arraigned on the allegation and appear with conditions, including the abandonment of his authorization and a band until a added apprehension hearing. The defendant's next actualization is on December 28, 2016, afore a US Magistrate Judge, the absolution said.
If convicted, the actor faces a best approved amends of ten years on anniversary acceptance artifice count, and a USD 250,000 fine. He faces a two-year mandatory, afterwards book on the aggravated character annexation counts, as able-bodied as a USD 250,000 fine.

"Any sentence, however, would be bent at the acumen of the cloister afterwards application of any applicative approved factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which yield into annual a amount of variables.

"The accuse are alone allegations; the actor is accepted innocent until and unless accurate accusable above a reasonable doubt," the absolution by US Attorney's appointment said.