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Corrupt DIBP officer ran a $3 million visa racket
A former DIBP official and her husband who were involved in a $3 million visa racket were allowed to flee the country with more than $1 million in the bank days after their home was raided by federal agents. Reetika Ajjan, a former DIBP employee, is accused of supplying government information and equipment to an illegal racket run by her husband Jeetender, which resulted in more than 1,000 fraudulent visa applications, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
A police raid at the couple's house in October 2011 turned up almost $500,000 in cash, which was enough to charge the couple. But Mr and Ms Ajjan were able to flee the country because the Immigration Department failed to seize passports or ensure a criminal charge was laid quickly.
The couple were also able to wire $1.2 million to India in the days after the raid and before they fled to India.
Secret briefings from the Immigration Department, obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald, reported that investigators thought Ms Ajjan should be charged for dealing ‘with proceeds of crime of a value exceeding $100,000', which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in jail.
Ms Ajjan and her husband are now living in Delhi and Australian authorities are attempting to recover the $1.2 million she transferred to India, which is believed to be the proceeds of crime, but the Australian Federal Police has indicated the money may be difficult to recover.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2014This is why we need an Independent Immigration Commission
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Tuesday, 12 August 2014Definitely, as well as an easy but strategic framework to document complaints/case studies and pass them up the line with appropriate follow up.
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Thursday, 14 August 2014
Can't the couple be charged in a local court, tried in absentia, and get conviction and seek assistance from Interpol.
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Thursday, 14 August 2014
What about 1000 visas, which have been issued? DIBP says; If we find that you provided a bogus document or false or misleading information with your visa application: we might prevent you from being granted another visa for three years and, if your visa has already been granted, we might cancel it.
It is crucial that government investigate this case and find out who has been granted visa by paying bribe. These people mostly from India entering to this country through illegal avenues, and research show that these people will continue their bloody corrupted mind to ruin the culture and economy of Australia. If someone have the capacity to pay bribe and enter to this country, they could pay bribe to go to universities, they could pay bribe to get jobs … to get in to to government agencies, to get government licenses, etc.
One area of the country which really is corrupted is the government funded courses managed though Indian RTOs, run generally by Indian community is only one example of the corruption. We can also look at the Australia custom, etc, that is really going corrupt from the hands of Indians. And we can see the major or second major migration visas are granting to the Indian nationals. So you can be the judge and predict the future of our county. -
Friday, 15 August 2014
For so long, DIBP has proved to be incompetent and unwilling to track down and stop unregistered practice. This is only tip of the iceberg.
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Friday, 15 August 2014
In India, and in the sub continient (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and similar practices exist in many other counties) you can buy anything and anyone for money - Police, Customs, Politicians, Judges, doctors, and anyone or anything else else you can think of.
People present DIBP fraudulent degrees, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates, passports, and apply for visas and most, if not all are passed as 'genuine'. Yes, they are genuinely fraudulent! Rarely does DIBP scrutinize the authenticity and veracity of those docs. Hope this changes! -
Friday, 15 August 2014
Walson-Mathew's assertion is absolutely correct. I had to close my thriving agency in Chandigarh due to the extensive corruption at ALL level in Chandigarh, Northern India. I submitted concrete evidence of the involvement of the Indian MAFIA, the corruption of the Judiciary, the senior Police officers and the suspected LES . MIA did nothing about it but the Foreign Minister acknowledged my claims and helped to flee from the clutches of the corrupted system. In one instance the Deputy Inspector General of Police in Chandigarh when presented with concrete evidence of forgery document for Australian visa, he calmly advised me I should go along with it to "help Indian citizens to improve their life by migration even if it involves submitting forged documents'. I am glad I fled the sewerage hole of that part of India. I do not know how the MARA registered agents are faring in that environment.
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Sunday, 05 July 2015
Guess I am not the only one to have been defrauded out of a residency visa.
They were part of the immigration department is not a nice thought.
The people that took $3500 from me in an exchange for residency visa are now in USA doing the same thing, but apparently still got branches in Australia.
Is there any justice anymore
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Clearly one cannot definitively speak about the particulars of the case because it soulds like there may never surface to reach the common folk (aka: US) so I reiterate what I said yesterday in another blog response - serious immigration fraud is insidious and has its tentrils firmly in place within the system, with a powerful minority of current officials, local and not-so-local nationals linked to overseas posts and past officials with insider knowledge such as this one.
I can't fathom why, since we have such a good relationship with India at THAT level (you know, getting India to agree to take asylum seekers off the Minister's hand), the two people in question cannot be reached by the 'tendrils' of our own law - maybe it only works one way only and not with those who aren't boat arrivals, vulnerable to power and corruption - one has to have a chuckle about this and then shake one's head in disbelief...
Meanwhile, MARA continues to chase silly little RMAs who think they can hoodwink desperate and anxious clients, believing they can get away with it and we all get a bad wrap whilst DIBP staff continues to be bloody minded, inflexible and doubtful about applications just in case we're running some kind of fraudulent racket - One has to 'always look at the bright side of life' in hope that this will be sorted out and have MA keep gnawing at it to effect change.