Halim Khan gets three years
Stabroek News
August 4, 2002
West Coast Demerara businessman, Halim Khan, was on Thursday sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the US visa sale ring operated by former US Embassy official Thomas Carroll. Carroll was earlier this year sentenced to more than 22 years in jail after prosecutors successfully applied to have the court impose a sentence above that recommended by the sentencing guidelines.
In addition to the three- year sentence Khan has agreed to the confiscation of his property in Guyana and other assets. More than US$1 million in currency and gold bars were confiscated from Carroll, which he had stashed in banks around the United States of America.
Khan, in return for a lighter sentence, implicated a number of persons who collaborated with him not only in the visa sale racket but also in his alien smuggling activities to the United States via Canada.
Khan and Carroll were arrested in March 2000. Carroll was arrested at his parents' home in a Chicago suburb and Khan was arrested at Miami International Airport and was later extradited to stand trial in Chicago.