Khan for detention hearing next week
Halim Khan who, with US embassy Economic Affairs Officer, Thomas Carroll, is facing charges of visa fraud, bribery and producing false visas is to appear in a Chicago court for a detention hearing on April 20. Carolyn McNevin of the US Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illnois told Stabroek News yesterday that the hearing would determine whether or not Khan would continue to be held without bail. Khan, a spare parts dealer and restaurant owner from West Demerara, was moved from Miami, Florida, where he was arrested on March 17 to Chicago last week to answer the charges with Carroll. Carroll, who has been denied bail, is to have a status hearing on May 12, the date set at a similar hearing on Tuesday. Carroll who was arrested in Chicago also on March 17 and Khan are implicated in a visa sale at the US embassy. They had allegedly sold a number of visas and were conspiring to sell 250 more with the cooperation of the then head of the Non-Immigrant Visa Section at the embassy. The man was a member of the State Department's Inspectorate Division and was sent to Guyana to investigate the scam.
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