An Indian CEO is held for duping US visa authorities to bring in 200 foreigners
By Ananya Bhattacharya September 4, 2018
An Indian CEO has been charged with H-1B fraud on nearly 200 counts.
Pradyumna Kumar Samal, a 49-year-old native of the state of Odisha, was arrested on Aug. 28 upon landing at Seattle-Tacoma Airport in the state of Washington, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a press release a day later. During his tenure as CEO of two technology firms starting in 2010, Samal allegedly ran a multi-year visa-fraud racket. The two Redmond, Washington-based entities he headed were IT services firm Divensi and geospatial data processing company Azimetry.
Samal has been accused of using a “bench-and-switch†scheme to “exploit foreign-national workers, compete unlawfully in the market, and defraud the US government,†as per the DOJ.
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