Indian made big in fraud

[idune]

Computer Associates’ Sanjay Kumar indicted for fraud

ALEX BERENSON

Posted: Sep 24, 2004 at 0025 hrs IST

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 23 A federal grand jury yesterday charged Sanjay Kumar, the former chairman and chief executive of Computer Associates International, with securities fraud and obstruction of justice, in what may be the last major white-collar criminal case to come out of the accounting scandals of the late 1990’s.

The grand jury also indicted Stephen Richards, the company’s former executive vice president for worldwide sales, on similar charges. Kumar and other senior executives, according to the indictment, were so desperate to meet Wall Street’s forecasts for Computer Associates’ quarterly profits that they backdated billions of dollars in contracts to do so. In one case, Kumar flew to Paris so he could personally persuade a customer to sign a backdated contract, the indictment says. According to the indictment, when the government began to investigate accusations of accounting misconduct in 2002, Kumar and Richards encouraged employees to mislead prosecutors and SEC lawyers.

Lawyers for Richards and Kumar denied the charges.

Five other former executives of Computer Associates, the fourth-largest independent software company, have already pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud or obstruction of justice stemming from the investigation. The company’s former general counsel, Steven Woghin, pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge I. Leo Glasser in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.

Separately, Judge Glasser approved a deal between Computer Associates and government investigators that would let the company avoid prosecution. The company agreed to pay $225 million in restitution to shareholders and improve its accounting and ethics practices under the oversight of an independent monitor; in return, prosecutors will dismiss securities fraud and obstruction charges against the company in 18 months, as long as the monitor finds that the company is abiding by the agreement.

The company, which has 15,000 employees, including 3,000 at its headquarters in Islandia, New York, has been dogged since the late 1990’s by a reputation for poor customer service and aggressive accounting practices.

Computer Associates’ stock, which traded as high as $75 in 2000 before falling as low as $7.61 in July 2002, after the investigation was disclosed, fell 38 cents yesterday, to $25.30. ‘‘This closes what I think is an important chapter in the company’s history and opens up a new one,’’ said Lewis S. Ranieri, a former investment banker who succeeded Kumar as chairman in April.

Computer Associates also said it would try to force executives ‘‘engaged in any improper conduct’’ to give back the pay and bonuses they received during the period in question. In 1998, Kumar received a stock bonus of $330 million, among the biggest one-time payments ever given to an executive, though he later returned about $70 million in stock to settle a shareholder lawsuit. He was paid another $20 million in salary and bonuses from 1997 to 2004. Prosecutors claim that Kumar and Richards encouraged employees to backdate contracts by a few days so the company could recognise profits from sales sooner than it should have.

Analysts said they thought the settlement would benefit the company. ‘‘The settlement should also clear a roadblock in the company’s ability to hire a permanent CEO,’’ Jason Maynard, a Merrill Lynch analyst said. — NYT

Computer Associates’ Sanjay Kumar indicted for fraud

 

[idune]

Three Indians accused of running UK visa 'fraud factory'

7 May 2009, 1533 hrs IST, IANS

LONDON: Three illegal immigrants from India have been accused of running a 'fraud factory' by submitting hundreds of bogus visa applications to the
Home Office and allowing foreign nationals to enter Britain.

The scale of the fraud was such that one of them boasted how easy it was to cheat the Home Office and obtain visas for people who did not have the necessary documents for legal entry into Britain.

A case on the visa fraud is currently being heard in the Isleworth Crown Court in west London.

The three Indians are Jatinder Sharma, 44, Neelam Sharma, 39 and Rakhi Shahi, 32, both of whom are reported to be married to Sharma. All three allegedly entered Britain using false documents.

Francis Sheridan, prosecuting lawyer, said, "the fraud focused on abusing the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme which was designed to enable well qualified individuals with useful skills to work in Britain."

Between October 2006 and May last year, their company UniVisa, which posed as a company helping immigrants with paperwork, submitted 980 applications to the Home Office. In the process, the three earned hundreds of thousands of pounds. Sharma had pleaded guilty to immigration offences when his company provided customers with fake degree papers, references and CVs to help them enter Britain illegally.


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Neelam Sharma and Rakhi Shahi are facing a similar range of charges at trial. They are also both accused of entering and remaining in Britain illegally.

Sheridan said, "Between them they submitted the largest number of fraudulent visa applications ever received by the Home Office from one source, making this the biggest immigration scam ever seen in this country."

He said that applicants with humble backgrounds were given false degrees, masters degrees, post-graduate qualifications and diplomas within a matter of months.

"Shahi was so confident of her ability to cheat the system, she even started offering her services on a no win, no fee basis," he said.

Sheridan said when police raided their house in Southall, they discovered some 90,000 pages of documents, including 980 visa application files.

"They have made a fortune, there are no bones about that. They were acting on behalf of clients to cheat the Home Office, to cheat the Home Office wholesale," added Sheridan.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4495214.cms?prtpage=1

 

[idune]

Satyam Chief Admits Huge Fraud

NEW DELHI — Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday, roiling Indian stock markets and throwing the industry into turmoil.


Mr. Raju said Wednesday that 50.4 billion rupees, or $1.04 billion, of the 53.6 billion rupees in cash and bank loans the company listed as assets for its second quarter, which ended in September, were nonexistent.

Revenue for the quarter was 20 percent lower than the 27 billion rupees reported, and the company’s operating margin was a fraction of what it declared, he said Wednesday in a letter to directors that was distributed by the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Satyam serves as the back office for some of the largest banks, manufacturers, health care and media companies in the world, handling everything from computer systems to customer service. Clients have included General Electric, General Motors, Nestlé and the United States government. In some cases, Satyam is even responsible for clients’ finances and accounting.

The revelations could cause a major shake-up in India’s enormous outsourcing industry, analysts said, and may force many large companies to investigate and perhaps revamp their back offices.

“This development is going to have a major impact on Satyam’s business with its clients,” said analysts with Religare Hichens Harrison on Wednesday. In the short term “we will see lot of Satyam’s clients migrating to competition like Infosys, TCS and Wipro,” they said. Satyam is the fourth-largest outsourcing firm after the three named.

In the four-and-a-half page letter distributed by the Bombay stock exchange, Mr. Raju described a small discrepancy that grew beyond his control. “What started as a marginal gap between actual operating profit and the one reflected in the books of accounts continued to grow over the years. It has attained unmanageable proportions as the size of company operations grew,” he wrote. “It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.”

Mr. Raju said he had tried and failed to bridge the gap, including an effort in December to buy two construction firms in which the company’s founders held stakes. Speaking of a “deep regret” and a “tremendous burden,” Mr. Raju said that neither he nor the co-founder and managing director, B. Rama Raju, had “taken one rupee/dollar from the company.” He said the board had no knowledge of the situation, nor did his or the managing director’s families.

The size and scope of the fraud raises questions about regulatory oversight in India and beyond. In addition to India, Satyam has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2001, and on Euronext since January of 2008. The company has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers since its listing on the New York Stock exchange.

Satyam has been under close scrutiny in recent months, after an October report that the company had been banned from World Bank contracts for installing spy software on some World Bank computers. Satyam denied the accusation but in December, the World Bank confirmed without elaboration on the cause that Satyam had been banned. Also in December, Satyam’s investors revolted after the company proposed buying two firms with ties to Mr. Raju’s sons.

On Dec. 30, analysts with Forrester Research warned that corporations that rely on Satyam might ultimately need to stop doing business with the company. “Firms should take the initial steps of reviewing the exit clauses in their current Satyam contracts,” in case management or direction of the company changed, Forrester said.

The scandal raised questions over accounting standards in India as a whole, as observers asked whether similar problems might lie buried elsewhere. The risk premium for Indian companies will rise in investors’ eyes, said Nilesh Jasani, India strategist at Credit Suisse.

R. K. Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management in New Delhi, told Reuters: “If a company’s chairman himself says they built fictitious assets, who do you believe here?” The fraud has “put a question mark on the entire corporate governance system in India,” he said.

News of the scandal — quickly compared with the collapse of Enron — sent jitters through the Indian stock market, and the benchmark Sensex index fell more than 5 percent. Shares in Satyam fell more than 70 percent.

Just a few months ago, Mr. Raju was trying to persuade investors that the company was sound. In October, he surprised analysts with better-than-expected results, saying he was “pleased” that the company had “achieved this in a challenging global macroeconomic environment, and amidst the volatile currency scenario that became reality.”

But by late December, it seems he had little support from the board or investors, and four of the company’s directors resigned in recent weeks. Satyam recently retained Merrill Lynch for strategic advice, a move that is generally a precursor to a sale.

Mr. Raju said in his statement that he “sincerely apologized” to shareholders and employees and asked them to stand by the company. “I am now prepared to subject myself to the laws of the land and face consequences thereof,” he said.

Heather Timmons reported from New Delhi and Bettina Wassener from Hong Kong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08satyam.html

 

[third eye]

The aim of posting an article of 2004 in 2009 could be .. ?

 

[idune]

H1B visa fraud consultants racket busted in USA,arrests 11 Indians

H1B visa scam, fraud consultants arrested

H1B Visa Scam and Fraud in USA lead to arrest of 11 fraud consultants all of Indians origin by US Federal Govt. in seven states and indicted IT services firm Vision Systems Group founded by an Indian American.

The arrests were carried out Feb. 11 by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Iowa, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and New Jersey.The arrested people had filed false documents in support of their H-1B visa petitions for Indian and Pakistani computer engineers and programmers.The government is seeking the forfeiture of $7.4 million from Vision Systems Group Inc., based in New Jersey with an office in Coon Rapids while warning that other IT companies are under investigation.The company was indicted on 10 counts, including conspiracy and mail fraud charges. According to leading source, five other IT companies, including Worldwide Software Services and Sana Systems, are under federal watch for document fraud.According to the press release:

The companies that are the subject of this investigation have asserted that the foreign workers have been brought to the U.S. to fill existing vacancies. However, the companies allegedly have not always had jobs available for these workers, thereby placing them in non-pay status after they arrive in the United States. In some cases, the foreign workers have allegedly been placed in jobs and locations not previously certified by the Department of Labor, displacing qualified American workers and violating prevailing wage laws. The companies and foreign workers have allegedly submitted false statements and documents in support of their visa petitions. The false statements and documents were mailed or wired to state and federal agencies in support of the visa applications. The companies are suspected of visa fraud, mail fraud , wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

The H1B program is a favorite among the technology companies in USA,but equally controversial among the policy makers in the federal government.This temporary work visa program allows technology mainly Software and IT companies and Universities to employ foreign guest workers who have the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree and H1Bs are only to fill positions that can't be filled domestically.The Silicon Valley has repeatedly urged Congress to raise the H-1B cap, which is currently set at 65,000 visas per fiscal year.The visa limit was reduced from 1,95,000 to 65,000 two years ago

Exbay: H1B visa fraud consultants racket busted in USA,arrests 11 Indians

 

[third eye]

In your exuberance to make anti India posts you are making them in the wrong location.

These have nothing to do with Indian Defence.

 

[toxic_pus]

The aim of posting an article of 2004 in 2009 could be .. ?

Expressing his unadulterated love for India and Indians.

Do I get to have the prize now? Please, please, please, third eye. Say I won.

 

[third eye]

Expressing his unadulterated love for India and Indians.

Do I get to have the prize now? Please, please, please, third eye. Say I won.

Yes you have.

The urge to make such threads must really be strong.

Sometime ago I had suggested that a small column could be inserted wherein the starter of a thread could pen a few cryptic lines which briefly stated the intention of starting a thread. This would help in threads like these which seem like a mis guided missile.

 

[idune]

Indian WSJ Writer Caught Red-Handed Plagiarizing


"A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine," a notice to readers now reads where the column once lived.

"In the column, 'Homeward Bound,' about H-1B visa holders returning to India, Ms. Sarika also re-used direct quotes from other publications, without attribution, and changed the original speakers' names to individuals who appear to be fabricated," the notice continued. "The column is the only work by Ms. Sarika to be published by the Journal, and it has been removed from the Journal's Web sites."



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The Wall Street Journal has scrubbed an article from its website after learning that it was plagiarized from several sources.

"A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine," a notice to readers now reads where the column once lived.

Wall Street Journal Plagiarism: Article With Quotes By Fake People Removed From Website

"In the column, 'Homeward Bound,' about H-1B visa holders returning to India, Ms. Sarika also re-used direct quotes from other publications, without attribution, and changed the original speakers' names to individuals who appear to be fabricated," the notice continued. "The column is the only work by Ms. Sarika to be published by the Journal, and it has been removed from the Journal's Web sites."

The original article — near 1,200 words — described Sarika as "a graduate student and freelance writer who hails from India and currently lives in New York City."

See the article, via Google's cached version
Wall Street Journal Plagiarism: Article With Quotes By Fake People Removed From Website

Wall Street Journal Plagiarism: Article With Quotes By Fake People Removed From Website

 

[sob]

toxic_pus

You just hit the bulls eye and you get the Gold medal

 

[indiatech]

To some nonsense , the essence of sense can only be realized when he looks at his own home before blaming others.

Fraud lawyer from Bangladesh



Bangladeshis while earning good image and reputation in the world for their various contributions in diversified sectors, a female lawyer named Tania Amir, who basically runs all illegal and fraudulant activities under the umbrella of her father´s law firm named The Law Associates.

Tania although cheating people for quite sometime, she was recently caught red-handed while she cheated a foreign company named Nam Nam Corporation [owned by the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea]. According to allegation lodged by the DPR Korea Embassy in Bangladesh, Tania Amir received Euro 15,000 in cash and Bangladesh Taka 100,000 against a promise of giving legal opinion on a matter related to pending bills of Maddhyapara Hard Rock Minning Project at Dinazpur district in the country. Although Bangladeshi law prohibits its citizen from receiving cash foreign currency, Tania Amir considers herself above law and she continues to deal with her foreign clients in the illegal manner for quite some time.

The story of fraud by the Bangladeshi female lawyer became public when the North Korean embassy lodged formal complaint with the Bangladesh government on the fraudulant activities of Tania Amir. After receiving the payment, Tania continues to play dilly-dally trick with the foreign company and even tried to threaten them through her own cadres of thugs. It may be mentioned here that, Tania Amir is the close relative of Narayanganj´s notorious culprit Shamim Osman.



Barrister Tania Amir is not only an expert in swindling money from people, but she also has proven track of forgery and fabricating documents. A valuable piece of land in Dhaka, belonging to the Nawab´s of Dhaka was grabbed by this female lawyer through her maternal uncle. The forgery has caused terrific loss to the country.

Barrister Tania Amir´s company, the Law Associates proclaims to be working for a number of foreign countries, including Germany, Canada etc. It is opined by many that by depending on this fraud lawyer, those foreign nations are greatly giving opportunity to this racket in cashing significant amount, by proclaiming to be working with them.

Tania Amir has questioned image in the country for her personal life. Most of the lawyers in Bangladesh rather refrain from making any comment on her as she is considered to be a stinky *** in the lawyers community in the country. "Don´t utter her name. She is not a lawyer but a ....."

 

[indiatech]

Bangladeshi Ex-Premier Held on Fraud Charges; Zia is 2nd Former Leader Jailed for Graft

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia was arrested Monday on fraud charges, as part of what the military-backed caretaker government here calls a war on corruption, police officials said.

Wearing a light beige sari and oversize sunglasses, Zia was taken into custody at her home, along with her son, Arafat Rahman. The two were accused of illegally influencing the selection of an operator for two state-run cargo depots in 2003, according to the country's Anti-Corruption Commission

 

[idune]

U. of I. board chairman quits amid scandal
August 3, 2009 9:27 PM | 89 Comments | UPDATED STORY


Days before a state panel is set to blast him for his heavy-handedness in University of Illinois affairs, board Chairman Niranjan Shah resigned his powerful post Monday while accepting some blame for his role in a far-reaching admissions scandal.

An Oak Brook businessman and prolific political donor, Shah becomes the second university trustee to step down amid allegations that he overstepped his authority in meddling with undergraduate and graduate applications. Trustee Lawrence Eppley resigned last week, saying he wanted to restore public confidence in the Urbana-Champaign campus.


Shah's departure leaves behind a fractured board grappling with an uncertain future. The remaining seven governor-appointed members will be urged to submit their resignations when the Illinois Admissions Review Commission releases its report this week.

"I don't know who else might decide to resign, so it leaves the board in limbo," trustee Frances Carroll said. "My concern is we won't be able to do the business of the university if everyone is resigning."

Shah and fellow board members came under scrutiny following revelations of clout lists that gave well-connected applicants an admissions edge at the state's most selective public university. Records show that Shah's sway also influenced housing and employment decisions involving his relatives and at least one employee's child.

In a statement released shortly after his resignation, Shah said such actions were acceptable in the past, but acknowledged they are more difficult to condone in the current political climate.

"When I became a Trustee ... many of the stakeholders in the University of Illinois system -- Trustees, university administrators and staff, legislators and others -- operated under a set of rules and norms that seemed appropriate at the time," Shah said in a prepared statement. "Today, I recognize that those rules are changing with the times, and I think that change is a very good thing."

Shah told the commission that many of his most aggressive requests were written by a secretary at his Chicago-based engineering firm who embellished his intentions. He also pointed a finger at Chancellor Richard Herman and previous U. of I. President James Stukel, blaming them for facilitating his meddling rather than telling him it was wrong.

Pledging his commitment to a smooth transition, Shah indicated he would step down in 90 days or when his successor is appointed. Gov. Pat Quinn released a statement saying the search will begin immediately.

U. of I. spokesman Thomas Hardy said the school's operations will be unfazed by the resignations.

"We will be in a bit of transition period here, but we have gone through transitions in the past and have remained strong," he said.

If Shah hadn't resigned, he likely would have been asked to step down. The state panel intends to recommend this week that all trustees quit, allowing Quinn to decide who should stay. The commissioners had focused on Shah, saying he may have violated the Illinois Ethics Act rules against nepotism.

After learning of his resignation, Commissioner Maribeth Vander Weele said: "Clearly it was the right thing to do. Trustee Shah's actions were the most egregious of any trustees' [actions]."

Having grown up in an Indian village without electricity or running water, Shah testified that he prized his trustee position because it embodied his father's belief that education was the only route to equality. He went on to establish himself as one of the state's leading engineers and a powerful figure in political circles.

"His resignation is consistent with the Niranjan Shah that I have always known," trustee David Dorris said. "In difficult times, he has chosen to do what he believes is in the best interest of the University of Illinois."

Shah joined the board in 2003 after being appointed by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He became chairman in January, the first Asian-American to hold the post.

He previously was a member of the state Board of Regents until it dissolved in 1995 and was a trustee of Northeastern Illinois University.

Shah hosted a fundraiser at his home for Blagojevich and dined with the former first couple in Springfield, state records show. He even spent a night at the governor's mansion.

Companies associated with Shah have received more than $30 million in state contracts since 2004 and contributed more than $53,000 to Blagojevich since 2000. His firm's records were subpoenaed last year as part of the pay-to-play probe of the former governor's administration. The firm has not been accused of wrongdoing.

It was against this political backdrop that Shah's family members and friends received special treatment from the university.

In 2007, for instance, Shah parlayed his connection with Herman to secure a high-paying university job for his future son-in-law, a Dutch citizen seeking work in the United States.

Shah has said he "encouraged" the university to hire Maarten de Jeu, "an exceptionally well qualified" applicant who graduated first in his class from an executive MBA program at Oxford University.

Two Shah relatives gained entry to the university's law school even though administrators suggested tutoring for at least one of them before he even enrolled.

Shah has denied involvement in the relatives' admission. Indeed, documents seem to indicate he did not directly pressure campus officials, but that they were aware the applicants were relatives.

In testimony before the commission, Shah also acknowledged intervening on another relative's behalf when she failed to apply for the honors program on time and did not receive her preferred housing assignment.

Records show he did not restrict his meddling to relatives.

In March 2008, Shah pushed for a student to be admitted to the rigorous MBA program, even though Herman warned of "serious concerns about his ability to handle the academics" and said the student's GPA was "below what is admissible."

E-mails show that when Shah pressed for a decision before he visited the student's family in India, the business school relented and offered the applicant a spot.

Shah leaves behind a deeply divided board that, for example, has been unable to agree on such routine tasks as approving tuition. It also loses his deep knowledge of contracts and the bidding process. Fellow trustees say Shah's engineering expertise has saved millions of dollars in construction costs.

"He was such a valuable asset," trustee James Montgomery said. "He's probably the only member of the trustees who has the technical skills and know-how to deal with the infrastructure work we do on a daily basis."

In the end, his apparent ethics violations proved insurmountable.

"Everyone has talents, and I'm sure he has many," Commissioner Bernard Judge said. "But the record of his involvement in ad- missions is very strong against him."

-- Tara Malone, Stacy St. Clair, Jodi S. Cohen

U. of I. board chairman quits amid scandal - Chicago Breaking News

 

[third eye]

toxic_pus

You just hit the bulls eye and you get the Gold medal

He is in auto - feed.

 

[indiatech]

The Bangladeshi security forces and the Muslim settlers often commit robbery and extortion in the CHT.

Few examples of looting Non Muslims

26 July 2008

Sagarbacha Chakma's wife in Baro Harikaba village went to harvest rice in their land. But to her utter surprise and dismay, she found that some Muslim settlers from Bhaibone Chara had been harvesting rice from her field.

She made a strong protest and chased them away wielding a machete in her hand. A Muslim settler was slightly injured when she hit him with the machete. Thereafter, a group of 15-20 Muslim settlers led by Nupur Ali came back to mount a reprisal attack on the indigenous Buddhist people. Apparently, the retreating settlers misreported the incident to their fellow settlers and provoked them against the indigenous Buddhists. When the settlers reached a village shop, they found a large number of indigenous Buddhists already assembled there, a common sight in almost every village shop in the CHT. Unaware of the incident, the indigenous Buddhists asked the settlers what they had been up to. The truth came out when they talked to each other and a mutual settlement was reached.

11 May 2008

Two elderly indigenous men in their sixties, Leipeda Chakma and Gyana Ranjan Chakma were ferrying goods from Karengatoli bazaar to their shops at Gangaram Mukh. When they reached Baghaihat, a settler named Nazimuddin seized the goods, apparently on orders of the Bangladesh army. As the indigenous men protested at the illegal seizure, Nazimuddin asked them to contact the zone commander Lt. Col. Sajid Imtiaz. Lt. Col. Sajid Imtiaz was the mastermind behind the 20 April'08 attack on indigenous villages in Sajek.

2 January 2003

Nayeb Subedar Mohammed Hafiz of 14 EBR and his personnel tortured the Jummas of Tarenge Para and Dhanpada village of Kaptai Upazilla, Rangamati District while the Jumma villagers were going to Bilaichari Bazaar by a trawler. The former tortured the latter without warrants and evidence. Then the Bangladesh Army men robbed them of their all money totalling over Taka 10,000. During the mass torture the following Jummas were seriously injured
Mr. Kaladhan Chakma (28) , the son of Mr. Jama Chakma
Mr. Sadhu Chakma (26), the son of Mr. Lokadhan Chakma of Tarenge Para village
Mr. Amal Kanti Chakma (25), the son of Mr. Bhoirabananda Chakma of Dhanpada village.
Needless to say, all those small scale Jumma businessmen had to close down their businesses due to the loss of their only meagre capitals in the said robbery committed by the Bangladesh Army.

15 June 2002

A group of the Bangladesh Army personnel from Karalyachari camp in collatroration with the local Muslim settlers attacked the Jumma villagers, who were on their way to Mainimukh Bazaar (near Dighinala town in Khagrachari District) to sell their agricultural produce including tons of bananas. The army and the settlers robbed them of their bananas and other goods. Then the robbed Jummas approached the local Member of the Union Council for help. On June 17 2002, the local Member took them to the Bangladesh Army camp and asked the Commander to return all the bananas and other goods to the Jumma farmers and to take all necessary actions against all the army and settlers immediately. In response, the Commander became very angry, abused the Member and the Jumma farmers with foul languages, intimidated them with severe punishments for their audacity to complain against the Bangladesh Army and pushed them out of the camp.

4 November 1995

A group of Muslim settlers and a number of VDP men from Islampur cluster village in Naniachar attacked four Jumma families with machetes, spears and knives at Gulsachari Bhuiadam in Baradam Mouza, seriously injured three Jummas and looted all valuable belongings. The Bangladeshi authorities did not taken any action against perpetrators. Among the victims were:

Mr. Shanti Bilash Chakma (40), had his thumb slashed and thus seriously injured
Mr. Anil Chandra Dewan (32), the son of Mr. Madan Mohan Dewan
Mr. Chijigula Chakma (35), the son of Mr. Nandi Kumar Chakma.
14 July 1985

A combined force of the Bangladesh army (7th Bengal) from Tintilla and the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (14th Battalion) carried out an operation at Ugal Chari Mukh village, attacked the house of Mr. Jatindra Chakma, 32, ransacked his house and plundered gold ornaments worth Taka 12,000.

13 October 1985

Subedar Kobbat of the Bangladesh Rifles (24th Battalion) and his troops raided Korolya Chari village of Khagrachari district. They arrested Mr. Olim Bihari Chakma (40), and Mr. Lal Bihari Chakma (22) a college student; took them to their base at Dhuduk Chara. The members of the Bangladesh Rifles tortured them severely. Mr. Olim Bihari Chakma and Mr. Lal Bihari Chakma were released only after payment of Taka 5,000 and 4,000 respectively to Subedar Kobbat.

5 December 1985

A group of 203 soldiers of the Bangladesh Army (41 Bengal) attacked the house of Mr. Biswa Muni Karbari, 45, of Sila Chari and forced him to give them 9 fowls, 60 kilos of rice and Taka 1,400. The Bangladesh Army plunderers also compelled Mr. Motaram Tripura of the same village to pay them Taka 4,500.