Chandigarh, March 20 (IANS) Punjab Police’s State Cyber Crime Division has busted a gang involved in facilitating the opening and supply of bank accounts, commonly known as mule accounts, to cyber fraudsters for routing, layering and settlement of defrauded funds with the arrest of three persons, said Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav here on Friday. A mule account is a bank account used by criminals to receive, transfer, or launder illicit funds without the knowledge or sometimes …
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Washington, Feb 27 (IANS) Two senior Republican senators have urged the US Department of Justice to investigate what they described as foreign-operated surrogacy centres exploiting American citizenship laws, raising concerns that the practice poses a “serious national security risk”.In a letter dated February 26 to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Senators Tom Cotton and Rick Scott requested that the Department of Justice “investigate surrogacy centers operated by foreign nationals”.“We wri…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US Senator Rick Scott has introduced legislation to bar Chinese nationals from entering any part of the United States without a valid visa, targeting a visa-waiver program that allows travel to American Pacific territories. Scott said his One Nation, One Visa Policy Act would prohibit “Communist Chinese nationals from entering the United States without a valid visa and barring them from participating in any visa-free travel program, including the Guam–Commonwealth o…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) A Delhi High Court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by Congress MP Karti P. Chidambaram challenging a trial court order framing charges against him in the Chinese visa scam case, marking the third such recusal in the matter.The criminal revision petition was listed before Justice Girish Kathpalia, who declined to hear it, citing personal reasons. The development came after two other judges of the Delhi High Court — Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma …
Washington, Jan 23 (IANS) Three Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to shut down visa and parole programs they say allow Chinese nationals to exploit US citizenship laws through birth tourism and surrogacy.Sens. Rick Scott, Jim Banks, and Markwayne Mullin sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum calling the programs a national security risk. They argue the policies allow nationals from Communist China to gain fast-track acces…
Kabul, Jan 20 (IANS) Islamic State Khorasan has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Kabul, which claimed seven lives and injured 13 others, local media reported on Tuesday. The explosion took place at a Chinese restaurant in Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area on Monday at around 3 pm (local time).Taliban authorities said that seven people, including one Chinese national, were killed in the blast, Afghanistan’s leading news agency Khaama Press reported.According to off…