Bay Area Man Sentenced For Airline Scam

San Francisco: A Bay Area travel agent will spend the next three years in state prison after judge in San Francisco sentenced former fairfield city council candidate, Iqbal Randhawa, in a travel scam. Randhawa failed to deliver 90-thousand dollars worth of airline tickets sold to travelers heading to India and other international destinations.
Iqbal Randhawa walked to a San Francisco courtroom awaiting to hear his fate along with his wife Qurdev.
Iqbal is well known in the bay area's East Indian community and lured primarily members of his own community with promises of travel bargains.
"It was a case where people's lives were affected. It wasn't simply the stealing of money. People had weddings planned in India. They were going to visit ailing relatives. They had saved money and vacation time and suddenly they get to the airport and there are no tickets", said prosecutor Max Peltz.
After the sentencing, we asked Iqbal if he had anything to say to his victims and his community. he had nothing to say.
04/09/07 Michael Finney/abc7news.com, US

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2007