Singapore: A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been sentenced to 22 months in jail by a Singapore court for a series of cheating and forgery cases. Suraj Kumar Sarabjeet admitted to 10 counts of cheating and forgery in a district court in this city-state on Friday, the Straits Times reported.
A polytechnic student, Sarabjeet posed as Captain Vincent Toh from the Singapore Armed Forces in January 2012 and ordered laptops worth S$44,074 on credit, the court heard. He later sold these laptops to other people.
Then, in March 2012, he posed as John Mackenzie from Federal Express and ordered 27 iPads, iPhones and laptops worth S$41,111 from Epicentre and later sold 21 of the items to a shop on Coleman Street here for S$22,670 and the rest to some other people for S$9,500.
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07:20 PM, May 04, 2013
An Indian-origin woman, accused of lying extensively about her age and educational qualifications to get employment as a lawyer in New York and England, has been convicted here of forgery and conspiracy and faces upto seven years in prison. London resident Soma Sengupta, 52, was found guilty following a six-week bench trial in New York State Supreme Court of all charges in the indictment including criminal possession of a forged...
12:15 PM, Feb 16, 2013
New York: A businessman who claimed in a lawsuit that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had promised him half ownership in the then-fledgling company when he was still at Harvard was arrested Friday on fraud charges. Paul Ceglia, 39, was arrested at his Wellsville, New York, home on charges of mail and wire fraud after an investigation by the US Postal Inspection Service. He was scheduled to appear in federal court...
03:17 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid's defamation suit against TV Today group will come up for hearing in Delhi High Court on Friday. Louise had accused the television network of maligning her family and sought damages worth Rs 1 crore. The TV Today group aired a sting operation about how Khurshid's trust for the disabled had forged signatures to acquire funds. Advocate Abhimanyu Bhandari had filed...
07:44 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid on Friday filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against a television group for broadcasting a programme alleging that their NGO siphoned off lakhs of rupees meant for physically challenged people. Seeking damages of Rs 100 crore, the lawsuit was filed against the TV Today group for airing the defamatory programme on its channels, Headlines Today and Aaj...
09:31 AM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: A fresh FIR in a case of forgery and cheating was lodged against businessman Abhishek Verma. He allegedly forged a CBI SP's letter saying an investigation against him is closed due to lack of evidence. He gave the forged letter to his bank to activate his frozen account. Verma and his wife were on August 22 arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case...
09:23 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested Nachiketa Kapur, a key aide of Suresh Kalmadi, the prime accused in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) scam. Reports say that Kapur allegedly used fake Delhi University certificates to get the post of Director in the CWG Organising Committee. Kapur reportedly worked with the CWG till April 2010. The Games were held in October 2010. The Delhi Police Crime Branch has registered a case...
08:50 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Chennai: A fresh complaint of land grabbing was filed against Union Home Minister P Chidambarams son, Karthi Chidambaram, and his wife Nalini, on charges such as forgery, land grabbing, violation of CRZ regulations and illegal reclamation of land, at Karikattukuppam village, off the East Coast Road (ECR). The complainant, president of South Indian Fishermen Federation Jaya Palayan, accused Karthi of grabbing about 12 acres of land, of which six acres...
10:09 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Naval war room leak case accused and businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife were sent to CBI custody till August 21 in a forgery case by a special court in New Delhi on Thursday. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Sanjeev Jain sent Verma and his wife Anca Neacsu to the probe agency's custody for questioning. The two were arrested on August 8 by the CBI...
10:31 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted bail to arms dealer Abhishek Verma and his wife. The court has granted bail as the CBI hasn't yet filed a chargesheet against them. The court has asked the accused to file a bail bond of Rs 10 lakh each and two sureties of the same amount. The CBI has filed an application seeking the formal arrest of Verma and his wife in...
02:58 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has filed a forgery case against arms dealer Abhishek Verma and others. Verma is accused of forging Sports Minister Ajay Maken's letterhead in order to get a visa for a Chinese telecom firm. At that time Maken was Home Affairs minister. Verma and his wife have been in jail for the past two months in relation to another case. They are seeking bail on Wednesday after...
12:12 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Islamabad: Dubbing Pakistan as a "global leader" in visa and passport forgery, Britain's envoy here has said that visa fraud is a deep-rooted industry in this country. About 4,000 people were caught last year while trying to acquire British passports using fake documents, the UK's High Commissioner to Pakistan, Adam Thomson, said. Pakistan was a "global leader" vis-a-vis fake passports and visas, he told reporters at the National Press Club...
05:13 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: A sacked Army personnel has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for trying to take seven persons to Germany in guise of members of an official band participating in the 2007 Berlin Music Festival. Special CBI Judge Manoj Jain awarded jail term to Lance Naik Suresh Babu after holding him guilty of hatching a criminal conspiracy and committing cheating and forgery by furnishing...
10:49 AM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday filed a petition before the Election Commission asking it to probe the alleged signature forgery case involving Presidential hopeful Pranab Mukherjee. The BJP said that Pranab's signature on the resignation letter to the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) needed to be investigated. Showing Pranab's signature on a print out of the resignation letter to Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology, Janata Party leader Subramaniyan Swamy,...
03:55 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Chennai: The Central Crime Branch sleuths have arrested the State vice president of Pattali Makkal Katchi for allegedly selling land at Korattur worth Rs 50 lakh with forged documents. Police arrested KN Sekar (43) of Kallikuppam, Ambattur, the State vice president of PMK, in a real estate office at Thirumangalam following a complaint from a grocer T George of Periyar Nagar. Police said George alleged that he had purchased a...
12:20 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Bharathinagar Police Inspector to be present in court on February 28 to explain as to why an FIR has not been registered against ace cricketer Anil Kumble for allegedly forging the signature of the father of his stepdaughter to obtain passport for her. Justice Abdul Nazeer gave the direction while hearing a writ petition filed last month by Kumar Jagirdar, the...
09:48 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Mumbai: A Right to Information (RTI) activist has accused a BMC assistant engineer and an executive engineer of faking his presence at an RTI-related hearing to close a case. On January 10, Sudhir Singh filed a complaint to this effect with Assistant Municipal Commissioner (S Ward) Ramakant Biradar, asking him to investigate the matter. According to Singh, on September 8, 2011, he sought details about a restaurant at Vikhroli through...
12:14 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Unidentified persons have forged the signature of Minister of State for HRD D Purandeswari's personal assistant to obtain grants for an educational institution in Uttar Pradesh with police suspecting the role of some 'insiders' in the episode. A case was registered in this connection by Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police's Crime Branch on Monday following investigations into a complaint filed by HRD Chief Vigilance Officer and Joint...
12:15 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: The black money case has brought the focus back on Hasan Ali, a man known as the king of money launderers in India. Ali is under investigation by the Income Tax Department for laundering upto Rs 40,000 crore. CNN IBN unravels Hasan Ali's money trail, which is allegedly in bank accounts spanning from Switzerland to New York to Singapore and Dubai. Hasan Ali Khan - frequently seen on...
10:45 PM, Mar 03, 2011
The duo allegedly duped several customers of about Rs 20 lakh. ...
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