By Chris Lambie
An Indian national refused permanent residency in Canada by a visa officer who believed he had links to an outfit behind Indian “disinformation campaigns,” and fake news reports will get another shot at obtaining the status.
The man, identified only as A.S in a recent Federal Court decision, is brothers with the CEO of a company known as Aglaya.
“Aglaya is involved in the sale and production of surveillance and hacking tools for information warfare and signal intelligence,” Justice Paul Favel wrote in a Jan. 31 decision out of Ottawa.
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“The (visa) officer noted Aglaya appears to be a subsidiary or affiliate of the Srivastava Group, sharing the same physical (New Delhi) address.”
On March 4, 2022, the visa officer sent A.S. a letter saying “there are reasonable grounds to believe” he’s a member of the Srivastava Group, “playing a major supervisory and decision-making role across its various businesses.”
Since A.S. was initially refused his permanent residency, which he applied for in 2018, “there have been several open-source articles and investigations regarding the activities of the Srivastava Group and its subsidiary companies,” said the decision.
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