I am not sure how this fits into the overall picture, but the AiNET website is currently down. The Department of Justice’s probe into the company and its indicted CEO, Deepak Jain, continues.
At the same time, we’ve filed two complaints with related ISO certification bodies regarding what appear to be fake certificates issued to AiNET, yet which contained accreditation marks. These were issued by OSS Middle East Certifications (accredited by EGAC) and Americo Quality Standards Registech (accredited by UAF.) The “valid” certificates appeared just days after I outed AiNET’s original certificates, issued by a certificate mill called Inspection Board, as being fake. It appears the head of the Inspection Board scrambled behind the scenes to have OSS and Americo issue “valid” certificates in place of his fake ones in order to protect AiNET and Jain. It would seem impossible that either body did any actual audits of AiNET in Maryland; OSS is in Egypt and Americo is in India, and yet certificates were issued by them in less than a week.
OSS has removed its certificates from IAF CertSearch, but Americo has not. I’ve sent a reminder to OSS that merely deleting the fake certificates does not address the complaint, and they still need to investigate how they were issued in the first place. OSS has still not responded at all to the complaint.
I’ve also pushed on UAF on how it accredited Americo in the first place, since its Wyoming address is fake. Nevertheless, UAF claims to have accredited the US office, which also seems implausible.
Deepak Jain faces decades in prison for allegedly falsifying server certificates to the Federal government in order to win a contract with the SEC.
This whole mess comes right as the IAF is trying to monetize its CertSearch database website, which has hosted all the fake certificates issued to AiNET. IAF insists the certificates on the site are valid and can be trusted, but we’ve proven that to be untrue.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 30 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
