KWQC-TV6 News clip – 02.11.09. Two immigrants involved in two computer sales and Internet companies in Clinton, Iowa, are charged in connection with a five-year-long FBI investigation, documents say. Fazal Mehmood, also known as Fazal Awan, is charged with misuse of a Social Security number and making a false record relating the registry of aliens. Vineet Maheshwari is charged with false immigration documentation. The companies involved are Worldwide Software Services Inc. and Sana Systems Inc. The arrests come after a five-year investigation involving subpoenas, mail covers, surveillance, source development and interviews to gather information relating to money laundering, alien smuggling, immigration and visa fraud, bank fraud and tax fraud, documents say. Mehmood and Maheshwari made their initial appearances Wednesday in US District Court, Davenport. According to court documents: Mehmood, 258 Cragmor Drive, Clinton, and originally of Pakistan, applied for and received two Social Security numbers in 1989 and 1990, the second using an altered name and a promise he had never filed for a Social Security number before. He opened a bank account at Members Choice Credit Union with the second number, his immigration records and his Canadian drivers license. He obtained a credit card with this account, which he uses to travel here and abroad. Worldwide Software Services Inc. filed a form on behalf of Mehmood in 2000 to adjust Mehmoods status to permanent resident. He obtained …
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