AUS-POLICE 2LST

AUS-POLICE 2LST
"There should be a dedicated bilateral approach between
Australia and India looking at fraudulent and unethical
education and migration agents in both countries," Briskey was
quoted as saying by the paper.

A transnational crime expert and former investigator of
Australian police, Briskey also called for more co-ordinated
action to deal with frauds despite a federal working group on
overseas students, but hardly any dedicated investigatory
group to probe links damaging Australian education industry.
Tony Pollock, chief executive of IDP, an organisation
offering services to overseas students had expressed concern
last October on the issue.
Some overseas students had become victims of a highly
integrated chain of exploitative education and migration
advice, with access to dodgy colleges, part-time work and
accommodation, Pollock had said. "This could be construed as
people-smuggling," he said.
Earlier, the Immigration department have cancelled
applications of 500 Indian students and education agents were
implicated in providing false bank and loan statements with
the help of corrupt staff.
"[But] this [chain of student exploitation] is below the
radar of what's being looked at as the primary
people-smuggling problem. By far, largest number of illegal
entrants come by aircraft," he said.
A bilateral investigatory approach was essential to deal
with "something that walks the tightrope between organised
crime and opportunistic business practises that could be
criminal in both India and Australia", he said. PTI NC
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