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Southall Businessman In 'Bogus Visa' Trial
A businessman is on trial after being accused of supplying bogus information to support visa applications.
Joginder Singh Kaile promised to accommodate scores of nieces, nephews, cousins, uncles and aunts, Isleworth Crown Court.
Kaile, 48, of Western Road, Southall, also promised to finance them and, if necessary, repatriate them to the Punjab in India. He is accused of completing forms for more than 60 people.
"That amounts to an average of two applications every week," prosecutor Anuja Dhir told a jury at the court on Tuesday (November 25).
Most of the applicants claimed to be visiting relatives, taking a holiday or simply making a social visit.
But some produced fake wedding invitations to the wedding of Kaile's daughter in Hounslow, a wedding "that never took place," according to counsel.
Kaile, who was arrested in June 2007, denies 40 charges of breaching or attempting to facilitate a breach of immigration law by supplying false information to support visa applications for people from India who were not EU citizens, between December 2005 and August 2007.
Ms Dhir said: "Kaile is a UK citizen who was the prime mover in a professional immigration fraud which targeted the system for issuing visitors' visas from India to enter the UK.
"In each of these cases he played a vital role in the applications which were made to the British High Commission in Delhi.
"Visitors' visas are a valuable commodity. Once a visitor has entered the UK there is no effective means of preventing him or her from remaining unlawfully in the country and seeking work in the black economy.
"Many earn significantly in excess of what they would earn at home. There can be a substantial incentive for Indian nationals to get visas by dishonest or criminal means.
"This defendant assisted in more than 60 fraudulent applications over a period. He did this acting in his own name as a UK-based sponsor and fraudulently using other people's names, without their knowledge or consent.
"Of the 40 charges, 32 are charged as attempts because these visas were not granted, and eight are the full offence where visas were granted," said counsel.
"Each charge relates to a different application by someone seeking to enter this country in breach of immigration law and relying on false documents in the forms submitted to the authorities."
The trial, expected to last four weeks, continues.
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In October 1999, Indian Joginder Singh Kaile, 39, was jailed for six-and-a-half years after police uncovered a racket believed to have brought thousands of illegal immigrants into Britain.
He charged £7,000 per person upfront just to fly them from India to Russia or Europe and finally the UK.
Once here, they had to pay for the extras, like sharing the cramped shed at the back of his house.