Six Indian citizens convicted in US for financial frauds
Six Indian citizens convicted in US for financial frauds
WASHINGTON: One Indian national has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for committing large scale financial frauds in the United States and elsewhere while five others await sentencing, the US Justice Department said.
Their victims included elderly US citizens of Pakistani and Indian origin. The leader and some members of this gang lived illegally in the United States.
MD Azad, 26, admitted participating in a fraud ring from 2019-2020 which operated out of various US cities including Houston and targeted hundreds of elderly citizens. On Aug 10, US District Judge Kenneth Hoyt ordered Azad to serve 188 months in federal prison.
Like Azad, five other Indian citizens — Anirudha Kalkote, 26, Sumit Kumar Singh, 26, Himanshu Kumar, 26, and MD Hasib, 27 — also pleaded guilty after being charged with financial fraud. All five will remain in custody, pending sentencing.
At the hearing, the prosecution described Azad as the US-based ringleader working with a call centre in India.
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