CBI charge sheet against French embassy official for arranging Schengen visa

THE CBI has filed a charge sheet against Shubham Shokeen, a law officer in the visa department of the French embassy here, three of his family members and four others, for arranging Schengen visas for applicants from Punjab in return for a substantial amount of money.

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The CBI is on the lookout for Shokeen, who is understood to have escaped from the country to evade the law.

The CBI found that Shokeen targeted applicants from Punjab seeking Schengen visas through a network of agents and induced them to give a huge amount of money for the travel documents.