NEW YORK, Jan 6 A US court in New Haven, Connecticut, has sentenced a Pakistani national to two years of probation for creating a fake identity by using a counterfeit passport to file an application for a social security card, Nora R. Dannehy, Attorney for the District of Connecticut, said.
Amjad Iqbal, alias “Asif Ali”, a legal resident of Brilliant, Connecticut, had pleaded guilty to one count of Social Security fraud, she said on Wednesday.
Court documents and statements made in the court showed that on June 13 of 2001, Iqbal, using a counterfeit Pakistani passport and Immigration and Naturalisation Employment Card in the name of Asif Ali, applied for a social security card.
In his application to the Social Security District Office in Manhattan, New York, he stated that he did not receive a social security number before. This was a material misrepresentation as he had received such a number in his name.
Based on his statement, the commissioner issued a Social Security Number to him in the name of Asif Ali.
The fraud was detected when he applied for a Capital One Platinum Visa Card in the name of Asif Ali using the Social Security number issued in that name.
An investigation by the Social Security administration, the Office of Inspector General, the Department of State, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Willimantic Police Department revealed the truth, resulting in the conviction.
