India, July 18 -- Five Louisiana men, including four active and former law enforcement officers and an Indian national, were indicted Wednesday on charges of bribery, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, and mail fraud, following a federal investigation initiated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The Indian national was identified as Chandrakant Patel.

USCIS fraud detection officers uncovered a pattern of inconsistencies among U visa applications, spurring a multi-agency federal investigation.

"The 62-count indictment describes the defendants' and others' more than nine-and-a-half-year alleged scheme to author, facilitate, produce and authenticate false police reports of purported armed robberies in the central Louisiana area,"...