Punjab-origin fraudster pleads guilty of smuggling migrants into US via Canada
Chandigarh News
Published on Feb 21, 2023 01:47 AM IST
A Punjab-origin fraudster, whom the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigated as part of the probe into the death of an Indian family at the Canada-US border last year, pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges in Washington this week, according to local media reports
A Punjab-origin fraudster, whom the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigated as part of the probe into the death of an Indian family at the Canada-US border last year, pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges in Washington this week, according to local media reports.
Rajinder Pal Singh admitted to receiving more than 500,000 US dollars (more than ₹4 crore) for his part in co-ordinating a complex human smuggling ring moving migrants into the United States through Canada, CBC News reported.
On January 19 last year, the bodies of three-year-old Dharmik Patel, his 11-year-old sister Vihangi Patel, their mother 37-year-old Vaishali Patel, and their father 39-year-old Jagdish Patel were found in a field east of Emerson, about 100 km south of Winnipeg, according to the CBC News. Singh was arrested in May last year
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