Indian turned away

An Indian national was turned away at Nadi Airport on Monday after immigration officials realised the university he was to attend did not exist.
Immigration director Viliame Naupoto said the man travelled here on the understanding he was going to attend the University of Pacific International.
Mr Naupoto said the man told immigration officers there was a recruitment in India for the university.
On the website, the university is located in Suva. It has a mobile phone contact number, while the fax number is that of the landline to Ba's Global Electrical.
Company director Mohini Ram said her husband met a man on a business trip to India. He accompanied her husband to Fiji and inquired with the authorities on the setting up of the university.
"He came to Fiji and went around Suva to set up the university," Mrs Ram said. "There was a student who came in from India who was detained at the airport. According to my husband, the university is to start in September."
Mrs Ram's husband, Rishi, is away overseas.
The university website offers free study tours to Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
"This is part of human trafficking. It's when you get people into the country through fraud or deception and this is what's happening," Mr Naupoto said.
"We will be sending across to India the information so they will be able to put it out to the media there that this is no such university based in Suva.
12/06/08 Fiji Times, Fiji

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