A Tibetan man, Tenzin Norbu, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for running a false asylum scheme in the US. He submitted fake Tibetan persecution stories for money, earning about $170,000. The fraud, uncovered after a multi-agency probe, affected nearly 100 asylum applicants.
Gujarat Police on Thursday got hold of the kingpin of an illegal immigration scam, an agent named Bharat alias Bobby Patel after 79 passports were recovered from his office, out of which five turned out to be fake, in the Chandlodia area.