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 Conspiracy to bribe an immigration official - Maryland attorney Kiran Dewan and 4 clients indicted
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Conspiracy to bribe an immigration official - Maryland attorney Kiran Dewan and 4 clients indicted

A federal grand jury has indicted an immigration attorney and four of his clients in connection with a conspiracy to bribe an immigration official in order to obtain lawful permanent residence, employment authorization documents and green cards. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Baltimore District Office and the Baltimore County Police Department.

The "immigration official" was actually an HSI special agent acting in an undercover capacity.

Indicted are Kiran Dewan, 59, of Woodbine, Md., a Maryland attorney, who operated the Law Offices of Dewan and Associates, P.C., in Windsor Mill, Md; and clients Amjad Israr, 46, of Cheshire, Conn.; Mohammad Khan, 58, of Baltimore; Khazar Nadar, 55, of Catonsville, Md.; and Narayan Thapa, 51, of Perry Hall, Md. The indictment was returned Jan. 8 and unsealed Wednesday upon the HSI arrests of Dewan, Israr, Khan and Thapa.

"Immigration attorneys hold positions of public trust and it is disturbing that anyone would defraud the very system in which they work for their own personal profit,"said HSI Special Agent in Charge in Baltimore William Winter. "Document and benefit fraud poses a significant vulnerability to our national security and exploits America's legal immigration system. Whether you are trying to illegally obtain an immigration benefit or facilitating the fraud, know this – you will be found, arrested and held accountable for your actions."

According to the indictment, Dewan touted his experience handling immigration matters. Israr, Khan and Nadar are citizens of Pakistan and Thapa is a citizen of Nepal; all clients of Dewan. Israr and Khan were both businessmen, operating several convenience stores in Connecticut and a restaurant in Brooklyn Park, Md. Nadar worked at several gas stations in Maryland and Thapa worked at a Maryland restaurant. None of the clients met the requirements for lawful permanent residence, nor for employment authorization.

The five-count indictment alleges that beginning in at least March 2011, Dewan obtained money from Israr, Khan, Nadar and Thapa to bribe an undercover HSI agent to obtain lawful permanent residence, employment authorization documents and green cards. Dewan then allegedly prepared fraudulent immigration documents for his clients to sign and submit to the undercover agent. In the documents, Dewan, Israr and Khan falsely represented that Israr and Khan were married to U.S. citizens. Dewan, Nadar and Thapa falsely represented that Nadar and Thapa’s employers had sponsored them to seek lawful permanent residence.

The indictment alleges that the defendants met with the undercover HSI special agent on several occasions to create application documents for submission to USCIS. Although Dewan allegedly agreed to pay the undercover agent bribes for each client in order to obtain the requested documents, Dewan provided the undercover agent a total of $117,100 in a series of installments. Dewan kept $2,900 as his commission on a bribe payment of $36,000 that he wired to a foreign account, which purportedly belonged to the undercover HSI agent.

The defendants each face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy and a maximum of 15 years in prison for each count of bribery. An initial appearance is scheduled Wednesday for Dewan, Khan and Thapa in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Israr had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn. and was detained.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Harry M. Gruber and Gregory R. Bockin in the District of Maryland


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 this Nepali guy Thapa being stupid or naive anyways thinking you can bribe Immigration officers here, he thought like Nepal and believed in those dhoti lawyers, i wonder what kinda world he was livin in?
 
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what they offered probably wasn't enough. EVERYONE has a price.  
 
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Paki and Indians and chinese have been bribing immigrations for decades and there are few arrests there as well. This is no new thing.

 


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