Our Bureau
New Delhi
There have been shocking revelations found in the investigation against the scammer Harshvardhan Jain who was arrested for running a fake embassy in Ghaziabad for the last eight years. As per the reports there are various possible links to the scam that might be worth nearly Rs 300 crore and includes more than 160 foreign trips in the past decades along with multiple overseas bank accounts.
Last week, Harshvardhan Jain was arrested from the rented two-storey house that he used as a set up of his fake embassy in Ghaziabad for the better part of the last decade. The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh conducted an investigation looking into the scam. They have found links suggesting that Jain was allegedly part of running a job racket. He is also being accused of being involved in some money laundering through the Hawala route.
As per the reports, when his ‘supposed’ embassy in Ghaziabad was raided by the police, they seized four cars with fake diplomatic number plates, forged documents and a collection of various luxury watches. They have deduced that the scam that Jain was involved in will amount to nearly Rs. 300 crore. The police have stated that they will be seeking the custody of the alleged scammer in the court tomorrow.
It was reported that Jain used this fake ‘embassy’, which he had been running since 2017, to lure people with jobs abroad. He even organised many charity events, bhandaras (community feast), outside the ’embassy’ to keep up the show and make it seem realistic. They have stated that he had rented the building six months ago but was running the fake embassy of Westarctica for the last eight years.
Jain’s two-storey building in Ghaziabad that had the name plate – “Grand Duchy of Westarctica” and “H E HV Jain Honorary Consul”, with the flags of both India and Westarctica, which is a micronation in Antarctica not recognised by any sovereign state in the world.
