Arrest warrant issued against Khobragade in US visa fraud case

NEW DELHI : Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest and strip-search last December soured India-U.S. relations, was re-indicted on visa fraud charges on Friday, a day after a U.S. court dismissed a similar indictment.

Federal prosecutors re-indicted her on charges of visa fraud and making false statements about the visa application of her domestic help.

A grand jury has returned a true bill on Friday on the two-count criminal indictment.

The fresh indictment, filed in a federal court in Manhattan, also charges her with submitting to the State Department an employment contract of her domestic worker which she knew contained “materially false and fraudulent statements.”

The 21-page indictment says the diplomat “knowingly made” multiple false representations and presented false information to U.S. authorities in order to obtain a visa for a personal domestic worker.



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