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SVC Legal Australia and Kalpinand (Abel) Prasad
Late in day on 4 February 2015 - witness statement by Alex Tees, Solicitor and ex SVC Legal, uploaded to this website
11:44am on 4 February 2015 - email received from Shafat Hussain claiming fake emails sent to MA under his name (see comments section of this blog)
5:15pm on 3 February 2015 - SVC Legal Australia and Abel Prasad deny allegations and threaten to sue SVC-to-MA-3-Feb-15.pdf
Migration Alliance has recently become aware of grave concerns regarding the conduct of Abel Kalpinand Prasad aka Abel Prasad.
The allegations are that he has behaved in a way which may see him being brought to account with respect to his dealings with SVC Legal Australia.
The most prudent course having regard to the relationship between MA and SVC legal is to suspend that relationship until further notice and to ask all of the members of MA to be very cautious in their dealings with Abel Kalpinand Prasad.
MA is concerned that the SVC Legal Australia offer of a “professional year” may not be in conformity with the guidelines formulated by DIBP and may not be approved or included in any relevant legislative instrument.
The allegations concerning Abel Prasad, and by association, SVC Legal Australia, in which he has a 75% stake, arise by reason of a purported ownership interest by Mr Prasad and do not apply to any person employed by that entity or the entity itself. However the association between the individual and the entity are so close and the offering of a “professional year” are said to attach to the entity not the individual.
Thus, the most prudent course is to exercise extreme caution.
MA seeks information from its members concerning any offer made by Abel Prasad concerning a “professional year” which has been communicated to any member of MA or a member of the public so that we may refer the matter to the appropriate authorities for investigation.
MA has received written and oral evidence from third parties that Mr Prasad owes recent employees money for wages and superannuation and that at least two are claiming for unpaid wages.
We have it on good authority that Mr Prasad and/or SVC Legal Australia owes a well known Australian printing company approximately $6000.00. The company are chasing this money.
Finally we have it on good authority that Mr Prasad took a piece of paper with him in his pocket with what looked like a number of credit card numbers written on them to a Sydney cafe in Surry Hills. He asked the Sydney cafe owner to process an approximate $2300 payment through the cafe's credit card machine in exchange for the same amount in cash. Our informer states that Mr Prasad offered the cafe owner $400 cash to process the credit card through their credit card machine. The offer was declined.
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Comments
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015Dear Superlawyer
Whilst this is a terrible situation, as a superlawyer a recommendation does not obviate an obligation to check for and on behalf of your client/s. We conducted checks at the beginning and repeated those checks on an ongoing basis, as we do with all relationships we have with external providers. It was our obsessive checking and cross-checking which has led to these discoveries. At the first sign of trouble, and after cross-checking our information we have notified our valued Members. We have been as transparent as possible. This is the best we can do.· Liana - Allan likes this comment. -
Tuesday, 03 February 2015Dear Superlawyer,
As a Superlawyer (I am not one) I am sure you agree that when a matter is being referred to a provider irrespective of any endorsement by a membership organisation that the most prudent course and what would be absolutely essential, particularly when there was any offer of a referral fee, is to conduct an enquiry to ensure that the service being offered was legit.
As I understand it these alarm bells have rung loud and clear and what MA has done is to pull the plug on Mr Prasad. The request for information to be sent to help@migration alliance.com.au is part of the follow through to mitigate any damage to your clients and your reputation which may arise.
We are all here to help you and will do what we can. In the meantime, if upon your assessment that your client has been dudded then mitigate that loss and where there has been any referral fee paid refund that to the client.
If I were in that position ( I am not) that is what I would do.· Liana - Allan likes this comment. -
Tuesday, 03 February 2015Abel asking $9,000 for referring the job opportunity at Big4 accounting firm. My client was so tempted but lucky we didn't go ahead.
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Sunday, 22 March 2015
Hi Jack,
A unknown person referred me to Abel by looking at my certificate for job and I talked to Abel over the phone he asked for $15k to get me a job and a visa processing fees. Is it safe to mov. Ahead? Thanks -
Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Dear Liana;
thank you for your email . I have referred 2 of my clients to SVC and about to finalize the payment as i was under impression that SVC Legal has strong tie up with MA as the previous newsletter dated 8 December from MA states that it has created $120000 Fighting fund with SVC to protect Migration Alliance members. Based on this i have put my full faith on SVC legal and was in process to refer my clients to SVC for Professional year and 402 visa, however due to some reason i found the conduct of Abel was totally unprofessional over the phone and emails( i do have records of his emails ) as he failed to provide answers to my simple queries. i was about to send email to Liana to show my concern about SVC and Abel and this newsletter has confirmed the same. I will notify my clients now to mitigate ,however this will definitely impact my business and image to my clients.
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Dear Guest
I am happy to write a letter on Migration Alliance letterhead to advise that in no way is this your fault and that you relied upon the information we provided you. If there is anything we can do to assist you gain faith and image back with your clients please let me know. I am finding this very embarrassing too. It is better it is out in the open. For us it is important that agents can trust us to provide them with truthful information as it becomes available, even if the news doesn't make us look good. It is better than to pretend everything is fine, or allowing time to slip by and hope it all just goes away. That was the other choice.
I am wondering whether to hire a private investigator to vet all companies we recommend to the profession from now on. It is getting that important.· Liana - Allan likes this comment. -
Thursday, 21 May 2015
HI LIana i am a victim of Abel Prasad as i paid him $10,000 for my visa but past months he is giving fake storiesand i dont know how to get my money back can any one suggest me please
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Thursday, 11 June 2015
HI mate i am also same victim where did you pay we shall go to surry police station to complain against him
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Very concerning allegations, it may well be that Agents getting referral fees may have closed their eyes with respect to due diligence checks and desperate visa applicants.
The companies involved are all inter related and migration agents who have paid or have directed clients to pay fees for SVC Professional Year Program, visa referral under SVC business advisory and accountants, Syd Venture Capital, Snappy Digital, or International Visa Group Pty Ltd can be liable for claims of negligence, migration fraud or with respect to conduct if this is proven.
SVC Legal Pty Ltd trust account is subject to or likely to be under administration with respect to missing trust funds and a trust fund investigation was lodged with some $15,000 misappropriated it is alleged by Abel Kalpinand Prasad and there is also a NSW Police Investigation.
While these claims are been investigated it would be unwise to put money in SVC.
Its best that Agents with dealings with SVC contact David Benjamin Andrews - ben.andrews@navado.com.au he is the Solicitor at least to clear up issues and get refunds if needed. -
Tuesday, 03 February 2015
I am not ex employee of Abel but I know what he has done. I have given my details and my story about him to Migration Alliance and will be happy to do police statement. I do not trust this man. I have seen this letter from his new solicitor Ben threatening to sue. This is only because Migration Alliance had the guts to lift the lid on all of what SVC is doing. Abel would not like that.
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Dear Liana,
We are also in the similar situation with some other RMA above. At very beginning, we saw SVC program promoted by MA. Given we trust MA very much, we instantly believed it is great a program not only for our business but also for many desperate graduates. We even launched online marketing campaign for SVC programs. Consequently, we received many queries about SVC programs and spent efforts converted few graduates. However, when we contacted Abel, we found his conduct is very unprofessional. We were actually in the process to require further clarification from Abel until we saw this newsletter. We now have to notify our clients the results. We hope MA can publish or email members something to help members gaining their clients trust again in this case. -
Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Migration Alliance you are very quick to judge people.
1. You have not mentioned that Mr. Prasad was kidnapped by two armed men walked to Commonwealth Bank and a Gun placed to his head and asked to hand over money. All arranged by his Previous Principal Solicitor who is ducking the NSW Police Force and remaining in Singapore.
2. You recently went on a private holiday funded by Migration Alliance costing your members Tens of Thousands of Dollars. -
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
This post is demonstrable rubbish and posted by Abel Prasad
Himself ;at the end of the day he and his crooked Girlfriend
Annaliese Oriti recieved $15,000 of client trust
Funds into their personal bank and credit card accounts and they
Have not reimbursed these missing funds!
Matter in hands of Law Society and Police Further information
Dean King 0421 144 1739 The Law Firm took control
Of SVC Legal Australia Pty Ltd Trust account -
Wednesday, 04 February 2015
To the best of my knowledge MA membership is still free, so that holiday ain't cost me a dime. Hope you had a decent tan though
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Is that you Abel? Kidnapped ... Really ? Now about that expensive holiday paid for by Migration Alliance? Are you serious? Cut the BS come clean the game is up? Aren't you the guy that says he is a billionaire? I know if I was a billionaire and I was " kidnapped " and being forced to take $16k from the bank out of the trust account that I would use $16k of my millions to pay what they were demanding ? Do you want to have your BS statement published... Grow up and stop trying to con everyone.
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Wednesday, 04 February 2015
if Abel had a gun put to his head and was kidnapped then he probably owes someone money. Migration Alliance could never have predicted that was going to happen. Plus the organisation has lawyers in it so you could reasonably assume they would be safe. I'm pleased migration alliance told us all as soon as they found out. See what happens when they tell the truth. They get threatened. Typical. Thanks Migration alliance for being honest to us members.
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Wednesday, 04 February 2015
It is so sad that Migration Agents are warning other about the poor/bad behaviours of other Migration Agents for the consumers protections and not from the government authorities. Thank you to MA & its members for bring these matters to our attentions.
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Wednesday, 04 February 2015
Migration Alliance is based on truth in reporting no matter what the cost to ourselves. Migration Alliance was set up to protect and promote the interests of agents and this includes telling the truth to the members no matter what the cost to me personally.
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Wednesday, 04 February 2015
There is clearly something very wrong going on here with SVC no matter who is to blame for the problems.
The details going up on this speak for themselves. A gun at this bloke's head, kidnapping etc. Who is the real victim? We don't know. What we do know so far is that the Migration Alliance told us as soon as it discovered the problem. And there is a problem. So, let's just thank Migration Alliance for their honesty because it seems like now Migration Alliance is being victimised for it's loyalty to its members. The price of truth is high!
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The only communications I have had with Prasad were as a result of the MA's advertisements and promotion of the Professional Year Program. Who conducted the due diligence when the MA took this lot on as a sponsor and set them loose on the members?