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Indian gets 15-year jail

New York: An Indian-origin former high-ranking officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison here for siphoning off government money to the tune of $9 million, most of which was intended to help identify victims of 9/11 terror attacks, and stashing it away in India.

Natarajan R. Venkataram, 43, was ordered to pay $2.97 million in restitution and forfeiture by Manhattan federal court’s District Judge Robert P. Patterson.

He apologised before he was sentenced saying he was “ashamed” to have “terribly failed everyone with my wrong decisions. [I] will regret this great loss for the rest of my life.” — PTI

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