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Inside the wildest 7-year fake embassy scam near New Delhi
Gulf News
|July 25, 2025
Police unearth a job scam, hawala operations and more
He claimed to represent a 'micronation' in Antarctica. Police say he was running a job scam, hawala racket, and more all behind a fake embassy facade in India.
Harshvardhan Jain, 47, has been arrested for allegedly operating a bogus embassy out of a rented home near New Delhi. Police say he posed as an ambassador and duped people by promising overseas jobs, claiming links to obscure entities like “Seborga” and “Westarctica.”
The fake embassy setup included cars with false diplomatic plates and rooms decked with international flags.
Authorities seized doctored photographs showing Jain with world leaders, along with counterfeit seals from India’s foreign ministry and nearly 30 other countries. Investigators believe these were used to create a convincing front to lure and defraud victims seeking foreign employment opportunities.
This story is from the July 25, 2025 edition of Gulf News.
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