Updated by Jay Gill

NRI Multani, ring leader along with 13 charged for smuggling illegal aliens ot US

Seattle, April 12, 2005
Arun Puri

NRI, Kavel Multani, 46, B.C. along with other three, was arrested by RCMP. Border patrol agents intercepted a minivan carrying 10 illegal aliens near the Oroville port of entry. It is beleived that the van was registered under Kavel Multani's name. Multani has a dual Canadian and Indian citizen, living in Vancouver.

• Along with him, three other men believed to be involved in the smuggling ring:
  • Nizar Sabaz-Ali, 38, a Pakistani citizen of North York, Ontario; Canada
  • Sandip Parhar, 26, a Canadian citizen of Delta, B.C., Canada
  • Armardeep Singh Powar, 23, an Indian citizen of Vancouver, Canada
    

Others arrested

• Raman Pathania, 19, an Indian citizen of Surrey, B.C.,Canada
• Jatinder Brar, 19, a Canadian citizen of Surrey, Canada
• Sukveer Sandhu, 18, a Canadian citizen of Surrey., Canada
• Matthew Dehagi, 35, a Canadian citizen of Port Coquitlam, B.C., Canada
• Harjeevan Parhar, 23, an Indian citizen of Surrey, Canada
• Anthony Maclean, 21, a Canadian citizen of Richmond, B.C., Canada

• Harminder Singh, 37, an Indian citizen of Kent, Wash., USA
• Lawrence Carter, 23, a U.S. citizen of Whidbey Island, Wash., USA

Still seeking two other men who have been indicted.

Authorities said that network in Vancouver is part of an organization spread across Canada. This is confirmed report that 12 people have been arrested in this conection. On Wednesday, Canadian authorities with the help of US authorities announced they have broken up a human smuggling ring. This ring was smuggling mostly Indian and Pakistani nationals into Washington state, US from British Columbia, Canada

It is estimated that that more than 50 people were on smuggling process to US by this ring and each person paid approximately US $ 35, 000/-.

In January 2005, investigation started when U.S. customs officials got information about three men near Oroville, a small Eastern Washington town just south of the Canadian border had bought maps of the border and had asked about border patrol and Canadian police enforcement activity in the area.