Hounslow-based Kaseepathi Koka, 42, was convicted in the Isleworth Crown Court for setting up bogus companies to allow immigrants to extend their visas, Home Office officials said.
His 39-year-old wife, Ajitha, who admitted to conspiring with him, and a third defendant, Tirunagaraja Prasad Thalla, 32, who admitted to a money laundering offence, were both jailed for nine months.
(Published 15 September 2010, 15:46 IST)