Officials from Washington have stated that an Indian-origin businessman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining contracts worth $6 million from a federal program created to help minority-owned small businesses, according to authorities. It is stated that Tarsem Singh was sentenced by Washington Federal Judge Reggie Walton, who also fined him $25,000 and ordered him to pay about $120,000 in restitution.


According to SBA Inspector General Peggy E. Gustafson and Washington federal prosecutor Channing D. Phillips Singh had set up a shell company to take advantage of the Small Business Development Program run by the Small Business Administration (SBA) after his original company became ineligible for it and obtained over 25 federal contracts.


The officials have added that Singh had magnetic signs made up with the shell company’s logos that were put over the original company’s name on its vehicles when used for the fake firm and had the original company employees use the other’s emails and pretend to be its employees when working on the fraud contracts.


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