NRI
travel Agent charged INTERNET WEBSITE SCAM
$200,000 Airline Tickets
Never Delivered
If convicted, he faces up to
fifteen years in prison.
New York, Nov. 4, 2005
Harish Sharda
NRI, non-resident Indian, Queens travel
agent, Jagdeep S. Pujji (also known as Jack Pujji
and J.S. Pujji), of 133-24 Sanford Avenue and 43-70
Kissena Boulevard, both in Flushing, arrested and
is being held pending arraignment in Queens Criminal
Court on the charges of Grand Larceny in the Second,
Third and Fourth Degrees, Scheme to Defraud in the
First Degree and Petit Larceny.
He operates several travel websites
advertising cheap airfares has been charged with defrauding
consumers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars
for trips to Europe, Asia, Africa and other international
destinations that they paid for but for which they
never received tickets
Jagdeep arrested today set up an elaborate enterprise
that victimized over 80 innocent victims. Customers
Paid $200,000 For International Airline Tickets That
Were Never Delivered
District Attorney Brown said, The defendant
is accused of ripping off nearly eighty on-line consumers
by stealing their money and their dream vacations.
The District Attorney said that detectives assigned
to the District Attorneys NYPD Detective Squad
and Postal Inspectors executed court-authorized search
warrants at three locations: 43-70 Kissena Boulevard
and 133-24 Sanford Avenue, in Queens, and at 29 Jane
Street in Roslyn Heights, Long Island, the residence
of one of the websites registered owner. During
the execution of the search warrants the defendant
was taken into custody.
He operated several Internet travel agency sites
from his home such as