CBI filed accusations against eight accused people in the case of visa fraud, including the then local legal official at the Visa Department of the Embassy of France in Nový Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI
In the case of a visa fraud, the Central Investigation Authority (CBI) filed a indictment against eight accused, including the local local legal officer at the Visa Department of the Embassy in Nový Dilli, his brother, father and wife.
Among those defended are the then local legal officer Shaubham Shokeen, his brother Abhishek, father of Samunder Singh and wife Aarti Choudhara; Visa Agenti Balwinder Singh Bartia and Pritpal Singh and Middlemen Jashandeep Singh Sidhu and Bhawan Shokeen.
Based on the inputs received from the French Embassy, the case of the CBI international operation registered. During the probe, he found that from January 2021 to May 2022, while working as a local legal official at the Embassy Visa department, Mr. Shokeen was aimed at the Pandjáb applicant looking for a Schengen visa through a network of visa agents.
“The network of visa agents, mostly based in Pandjab, received money in the range of 13 Lakh to 45 ₹ Lakh from each visa applicant and instead of these large amounts of money, visa requests were processed by the accused and after the release of Schengen Visas, the accused destroyed visa documents and submitting.
“During the investigation, a huge amount of cash and more documents related to real estate worth in India and abroad were found at various places in Pandjab and Delhi. Two accused visa agents were key to conspirators who paid money through various bank accounts achieved by the accused local and family members accused pledgee, “CBI, which got into two aspiring. ”
In order to monitor the income from crime abroad, the international operational division in coordination with the international unit of CBI police cooperation was also successful in obtaining the first Indian interpoly silver announcement published in this case.
23. May a notice of silver was issued against Mr. Shokeen. “He received six real estate worth 7,760,500 dirhams (15,73,51,250 GBP) in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, using crime.
Published – June 11, 2025 17:06
