Two brothers who illegally recruited H-1B visa workers to create a low-cost workforce for their Carrollton computer consultation company were each sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison.
Brothers Atul and Jiten “Jay” Nanda were convicted in November of one count of visa fraud, one count of harboring illegal aliens and four counts of wire fraud. They’ve been out on bond but were taken into custody by U.S. marshals upon their sentencing.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office, the Nanda brothers “created, established and ran” Dibon Solutions from about March 2005 to February 2011.
Their scheme was based around installing H-1B workers they recruited under false pretenses at third-party businesses, rather than at their own company, and only paying the workers for the time they spent working, a practice commonly known as “benching.”
The Nandas’ visa paperwork falsely stated that the workers had full-time positions with annual salaries with Dibon Solutions, two requirements of the federal government to secure the visas.
