Six Member illegal Indian Family Seeks Consulate Help

The family with a Snehathazhvara volunteer

9- Days old illegal Migrant Girl Child Seeks Help for the folly of her parents.

DUBAI – The regular Open House in the Indian Consulate on Thursday evening received
an youngest illegal expatriate.Jansit Thomas, is the youngest member of six member family of an absconded worker was in the Open House for no folly of her own. Like Janet her six years old sister Elzi Thomas, four years old Ansit Maryam and two years old Lalslit Thomas were in the Consulate because they cannot go to school or lead a normal life because they don’t have valid UAE visa. The distressed illegal family has approached the Consulate seeking "help" to be repatriated home because they have no means of survival. Open Forum is a regular meeting organized by the Indian Consulate where Indian expatriates can air their grievances. It is their errant parents' miserable conditions that brought these young girls to such a difficult situation.

According to Mathew, a social organization that brought them to the diplomatic mission, the family was on the verge of poverty after Shanet, the wife who was working illegally with a transit visa lost her job last week. Both the husband and wife have been living in the UAE from 1994. "The husband brought his newly married wife to Dubai in the 1990s as his employer promised him a family visa. But he could never convert her visit visa into family visa. She has been living and working in Dubai with transit and visit visas, occasionally paying huge amount to visa agents and remitting fine to legalise their family life," says the spokesman of Valley of Life.

"All the four children are born in the UAE. Except the new born baby, all others have Indian passports, but no visa. Even though she has worked as a school nurse, her visa status did not change. The Consulate General has promised to look into the matter," he said. According to Mathew there are other expatriate families who hide their illegal status. "This family's plight came to our notice from another distressed family in Sharjah, who faced a similar situation when its only earning member expired. We have received many such cases in the last two months. Expatriate families should realize the folly of trying to live illegally circumventing the law of the land," he said.

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Report on the former MP's Dubious Role in Charitable Trust - Part of Inter party rivalry in Kerala? Who does not know the insurance spouse of prominent politicians?

DUBAI - What could be the beginning of a new series of frauds by the mushrooming number of welfare trusts and overseas Malayali associations working under the tutelage of political leaders, a new fraud has been reported from Dubai. Gulf Employees Charitable Trust started with much publicity and media campaign with the blessings of Ramesh Chennithala, the senior Congress leader from Kerala, is alleged to have duped several Non Resident Keralites, especially those living in labour camps through a dubious insurance protection scheme in collaboration with a leading Indian insurance company. The trust which has been registered in New Delhi has been working in different emirates with a maintenance company license.

A group of people allege that they have been duped by Gulf Employees Charitable Trust registered in New Delhi and run by NRKs in the UAE. The trust which has opened UAE operations one year ago attracted expatriates by offering a number of benefits including free insurance coverage, healthcare, free pick up from airports, and education benefits. The Trust is believed to have lured more than 24000 expatriates from Dubai, Sharjah, Al Ain Ras Al Khaimah and other emirates and regularly collects Dhs.100 from each one per month, helping the real mastermind behind these schemes to make a fortune at the cost of ordinary workers.

A Keralite who lost heavily in the scheme said that the entire scheme has been fraudulent and not many people have received the promises made by the trust. According to one estimate, about Indian Rs.4 crores have been collected from Non Resident Indians by the trust. Every month the Trust is allegedly collecting Dhs.100 from 2400 members and special marketing staff are brought from India to canvass new members. Ramesh Chennithala, the prominent Congress member from Kerala, famous for his association with charitable trusts with Gulf Links has denied any links with the Trust. Ramesh Chennithala has denied that even though the charitable trust has put an office in his home town (Mavelikkara) and he inaugurated the Trust activities, he has no connection to the trust!

The Trust members are believed to have used or misused the names of prominent politicians like O Rajagopal, M.M.Hassan and P.C Alexander to lure ordinary people to invest in the innovative scheme. The schemes offered Rs.50,000 insurance coverage from Bajaja Alliance Insurance Company, a leading Indian insurance company and many other benefits. When they remit Dhs.100 per month as premium, Dhs.40 equivalent to Indian Rs.450 goes to insurance premium and the remaining Dhs.60 is promised to be invested profitably for the benefit of the Trust members. The scheme was also advertised through Indian radio stations operating in the UAE. Accidentally one of the radio station directors was also introduced as a director to the members. The company's official phone and fax numbers in Mavelikkara are not working and a website which is part of the membership canvassing is not working. If the members deposit Dhs.100 per month, they are offered insurance coverage upto Indian Rs.50,000, job protection, concessional air travel facility and free transport from airport to their residence, medical help and a lot of other benefits.

Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Trust said there are 100 people who work as directors and deputy directors - 19 directors and 81 deputy directors. He did not have any answer about the qualification required to become a director of the trust. It is just the amount of money that people invest that makes them directors or deputy directors. "We have the license of the Indian Government to collect fund from anywhere in the world. We will organize a press conference to explain the situation," he added. "There are many associations here and we are one such trust working for the welfare of expatriates," he claimed. "The complaint is made by some members who were caught taking money from people offering visas," he said.

There are large number of expatriate trusts and associations, some of which uses their personnel contacts to lure members to the scheme and offer plum posts like director and deputy director posts. Gulf Employees Charitable Trust collects Dhs.100 from individual members, apparently without permission from the UAE central bank or other regulatory bodies controlling such fund raising. The trust lures many prominent people to the scheme by offering directorship and deputy directorship after taking huge amounts. To become a director you have to invest Dhs.40,000 to Dhs.12,000. There are families in Northern Emirates, who have invested Dhs. 19,2000 for getting four directors post in the Trust," said the victims. (keralamonitor.com)