A man walks past the office of Directorate of Enforcement in New Delhi, India, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
India alleges Canadian schools linked to trafficking international students across Canada-U.S. border
The allegations have not been tested in court. The federal government, the RCMP, the Indian high commission in Ottawa and multiple Canadian college officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Indian officials say they launched their investigation after Jagdish Baldevbhai Patel, 39, was found dead along with his wife and two children near a border crossing between Manitoba and the United States on Jan. 19, 2022.
Prosecutors said Harshkumar Patel co-ordinated a sophisticated operation while Shand was a driver who was supposed to pick up 11 Indian migrants on the Minnesota side of the border. Only seven survived the foot crossing. Canadian authorities found the Patel family later that morning, dead from the cold.
The Enforcement Directorate said it searched eight places last week in Mumbai, Nagpur in Maharashtra state, and Gandhinagar and Vadodara in Gujarat. A poster on a shop in Dingucha village, where the Patel family was originally from, advertises work and study opportunities abroad on Nov. 12.
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