(NJ.com) A former U.S. military interpreter from Afghanistan living in Newark and New York was indicted Friday on charges he helped smuggle people into the United States from his home country.
Mujeeb Rahman Saify, 32, faces three criminal counts related to a smuggling network that brought two people to the United States through fraudulent documents and roundabout air travel through the Middle East and South America, said Craig Carpenito, U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Saify worked with three people, including a travel agent based in Peshawar, Pakistan, to bring people to the U.S. from Afghanistan illegally between July 2016 and February 2017, authorities said.
