{"id":14910,"date":"2025-07-27T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:04:14","slug":"indian-man-running-fake-embassy-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14910","title":{"rendered":"Indian man running &#8216;fake embassy&#8217; arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Police in India have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy from a rented house near New Delhi and duping job seekers out of money with promises of overseas employment.<\/p>\n<p>Harsh Vardhan Jain, 47, was operating an &#8220;illegal West Arctic embassy by renting a house&#8221; in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, which neigbhours the capital, local police said.<\/p>\n<p>Jain, according to police, claimed to be the ambassador of fictional nations &#8220;like West Arctica, Saborga, Poulvia, Lodonia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly used vehicles with fake diplomatic plates and shared doctored photos of himself with Indian leaders to bolster his claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His main activities involved acting as a broker to secure work in foreign countries for companies and private individuals, as well as operating a hawala (money transfer) racket through shell companies,&#8221; the police said in a statement following his arrest earlier this week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in India have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy from a rented house near New Delhi and duping job seekers out of money with promises of overseas employment. Harsh Vardhan Jain, 47, was operating an &#8220;illegal West Arctic embassy by renting a house&#8221; in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, which neigbhours the capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}