A convicted fraudster admitted to receiving more than $500,000 US for his part in co-ordinating a complex human smuggling ring moving migrants into the United States through Canada.
Rajinder Pal Singh admitted to receiving more than $500,000 US for his part in co-ordinating a complex human smuggling ring moving migrants into the United States through Canada.revealed that Singh had become a person of interest in the Manitoba RCMP investigation into the tragic freezing death of the Patel family on the Canada-U.S. border in January 2022.
Singh, a 49-year-old Indian citizen living illegally in the U.S., was previously convicted of bank fraud and forging documents. "All told from mid-2018 until May 2022, using at least 17 different Uber accounts — all with false identity information — Singh arranged more than 600 trips involving the transport of Indian nationals who had been unlawfully smuggled into the United States by Singh and his co-conspirators," the agreement states.
"[T]hey know from where these people are f--king coming. One hundred per cent ," Singh is quoted as saying, according to the complaint. Seven other Indian migrants were dropped off at the same spot that night and were wandering out in the cold for more than 11 hours before they were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol the next morning. Two migrants suffered from hypothermia. One had her hand partially amputated.
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