A US court has sentenced Indian national Ligneshkumar H. Patel to 90 months in prison for a multi-state imposter-fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims across five Midwestern states, causing losses of over $2.2 million. He must pay more than $2 million in restitution.
An Indian national, Mohammed Asif, has been sentenced to two years in a US federal prison for orchestrating a $1.17 million Medicare fraud through a Washington-based diagnostic lab. He must pay restitution and faces likely deportation after serving his term.
An Indian staff nurse at Singapore’s Raffles Hospital has been sentenced to a year and two months in jail and two cane strokes for molesting a male visitor under the pretext of “disinfection.” The 34-year-old was arrested days after the June incident.
Two Indian tourists were jailed for five years and one month and sentenced to 12 cane strokes each in Singapore for robbing and assaulting two sex workers in hotels. The men admitted to tying up, slapping, and threatening their victims.
An Indian national in the US illegally has been arrested for a California truck crash that critically injured a five-year-old girl. This is the second such case in months, with US officials blaming lax licensing rules in California.
During his primary inspection, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) indicated that Singh was wanted in Indiana for child solicitation, solicitation for sexual intercourse
Jaspal Singh, a citizen of India was arrested on January 29 in Tukwila, Washington. Singh is charged with “assault with sexual motivation”, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Seattle said
