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Bay Area tech executives indicted for H-1B visa fraud (The Mercury News)

March 27, 2017

Two San Francisco Bay Area tech executives are accused of filing false visa documents through a staffing agency in a scheme to illegally bring a pool of foreign tech workers into the US, The (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News newspaper reports. An indictment from a federal grand jury unsealed on Friday accuses Jayavel Murugan and Syed Nawaz of fraudulently submitting H-1B applications in an effort to illegally obtain visas, according to Brian Stretch, US attorney for the Northern District of California. Murugan is co-owner of Dynasoft, an employment firm based in Fremont, Calif., with an office in India, according to the indictment. Nawaz is believed to have worked for several San Francisco Bay Area tech companies, including Cisco, Brocade Communications and Equinix.