Healthyway fraud worth Rs 5-8 crore,police probe finds

The two financiers arrested have been identified as Rajat,a resident of Sector 19 and Anil Verma,a resident of Jalandhar.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP),Chandigarh,Naunihal Singh said,“The Healthyway Immigration consultants had six dedicated financiers who were providing fake documents and finances to youths planning to go abroad. Out of those six,two were arrested on late Tuesday.”

The director of the company Amit Kakkar,a resident of phase II Mohali who is already in police custody was arrested by police on August 16 and the other co-accused in the case,his mother Saroj Kakkar,wife Swati Kakkar and an employee of the company Kuldeep Singh are absconding.

The immigration racket in the region was unearthed on August 13 after British embassy in New Delhi informed the Chandigarh police that an immigration company based in the city was issuing fake bank guarantees and documents for immigration. After this input,the Chandigarh police raided the office of the company in Sector 42 and unearthed one of the biggest immigration rackets in the region.

The SSP said that 14 teams of the Chandigarh police have been sent to Punjab,Haryana and Himachal Pardesh to probe the authenticity of certificates and bank documents recovered from the premises of the Immigration company.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by Deputy Superintendents of Police,Anil Kumar and B S Negi are probing the immigration racket. The roles of the banks is also under scanner.

The SSP said that besides Healthyway Immigration,the role of three other companies that are owned by Amit Kakkar’s relatives is also under the scanner.

The SSP said from the preliminary investigations in the racket it has found that the company has cheated people of Rs 5-8 crores.

“From 2007 till July this year,we had received 32 complaints against the company,but most of these complainants made a compromise with the company. This time,when we got an input from an Embassy,the evidence was concrete. So far we have established that the company has cheated hundreds of people and the Special Investigation Team has found 262 fake loan documents,” he said.

“There are 6,000 immigration companies in the region and we are are looking for any link between all of them,” the Senior Superintendent of Police said.