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Two Bay Area tech executives are accused of filing false visa documents through a staffing agency in a scheme to illegally bring a pool of foreign tech workers into the United States.
An indictment from a federal grand jury unsealed on Friday accuses Jayavel Murugan, Dynasoft Synergy's chief executive officer, and a 40-year-old Santa Clara man, Syed Nawaz, of fraudulently submitting H-1B applications in an effort to illegally obtain visas, according to Brian Stretch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.
The men are charged with 26 counts of visa fraud, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, use of false documents, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to prosecutors. Each charge can carry penalties of between two and 20 years in prison.
Murugan, 46, is co-owner of Dynasoft, an employment firm based in Fremont with an office in India, according to the indictment. Nawaz is believed to have worked for several Bay Area tech companies, including Cisco, Brocade Communications and Equinix.
Prosecutors say the men used fraudulent documents to bring workers into the U.S. and create a pool of H-1B workers to hire out to tech companies. The indictment charges that from 2010 to 2016, Dynasoft petitioned to place workers at Stanford University, Cisco and Brocade, but the employers had no intention of receiving the foreign workers named on the applications.
Source: The Mercury News
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday April 02 2017, @01:59PM (2 children)
Could this be the first hint from the current administration that the H1-B fraud scheme is over and that anyone involved with it better divest from it speedily before they themselves come to the attention of the justice system?
This is a particularly egregious violation. And it's likely that the investigation was started under the Obama administration. We'll see if this is the start of something more, but my take is that Trump isn't going to act on H1-B right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @05:25PM (1 child)
You going full enlibtenment now??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:06PM
Meh, tbh it does tend to give him credibility. What I can't stand are the posters here who obviously get their material from the Monday afternoon sermon of the Church of El Rushbo. (Or is it Father Hannity of the Breitbart Supplicants now?)