It must look like this site is Indophobic, but that’s not true. Oxebridge owes its entire existence to a few Indian companies that hired us at the very start in early 2000, like Axon Circuit and Multilayer Technology. It’s just that the scams coming out of India are out of control, with the Modi government and Indian accreditation body NABCB entirely unwilling to do anything about it. Now, factor in that Indians speak English and can export those scams into English-speaking countries that fall under my radar. I don’t report on Chinese scams, for example, since I don’t speak Mandarin and would never spot them. I do spot the English ones, so India gets a somewhat unfair level of scrutiny.
Well, as much as “unfair” applies to scammers, anyway.
Now meet the Records Brigade of the Guard, apparently a part of the Indian military police known as the “Brigade of the Guard,” who bought a suspicious ISO 9001 certificate from a known scammer company, Royal Impact Certification Ltd. (RICL). You might remember them after we found evidence they were issuing flat-rate quotes for certification service, without ever calculating audit duration as required.
RICL is accredited by snakecoupler Parveen Sadana of the United Accreditation Forum, who I just can’t seem to stop writing about lately, since they just can’t stop getting into all sorts of trouble. I won’t repeat all the garbage that UAF has been up to, nor the history of how they got full IAF membership only after APAC’s Graeme Drake — patient zero for nearly all the fraud in the ISO scheme these days — covered up complaints against them.
Thanks to Drake’s willingness to do whatever it takes to make pocket change, the UAF is now a full IAF member, and they can accredit scammers like RICL all day long.
So it’s just another bit of hilarity that yet another Indian police organization is caught buying a certificate from companies involved in fraud. If you’re keeping score at home, it was just last week that the same thing happened with another Indian cop shop.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 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
