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Tech guru of con call centre scam arrested
by Seva Lamberdar Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:28 pm
Gargi Verma | Mumbai Mirror | Nov 5, 2016, 06.34 PM IST
One more person was arrested on Thursday in connection with the multi-million dollar trans-national call centre scam, in which hundreds of thousands of US citizens were conned into paying off fictitious debts. 29-year-old Akhilesh Singh is the 75th person to be arrested in the case, even as mastermind Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy continues to elude the police.
The Thane Crime Branch said that Akhilesh walked into its trap in Mira Road while he was visiting his residence, and that he was the one who had finalized the property deals to set up the call centre. Calling him the "technical brain" behind the scam, a Crime Branch source said he had set up the high-end equipment that wouldn't disclose the callers' numbers to their victims in the US.
ACP Mukund Hatote, the investigating officer in the case, said that Akhilesh had helped his brother-in-law Chandan Ajit Singh get the deal done for Hari Om IT Park, near Delta Garden building at Mira Road, to set up the call centres. The call centres were located on the second and fourth floors of a building at the IT park. Akhilesh was produced before a magistrate's court on Friday, which remanded him in police custody till Monday. "Akhilesh has admitted to have done three rental agreements for the call centres," ACP Hatote said.
The scam came to light in October when the police raided a clutch of call centres at Mira Road. Subsequently, the police shut down five call centres in Ahmedabad which too were allegedly involved in the scam. Last week, the Thane Crime Branch traced an Audi that Shaggy had purchased from star cricketer Virat Kohli in May. The police have already arrested Shaggy's mentor and former boss Jagdish Kanani, but the former is believed to have escaped to Azerbaijan.
According to US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, the con call centres stole over $300 million from the victims. The US Justice Department has charged 61 people and entities linked to the scam where call centre agents "impersonated" the US Internal Revenue Service and other Federal officials and demanded payments for non-existent debts.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tech-guru-of-con-call-centre-scam-arrested/articleshow/55263320.cms
One more person was arrested on Thursday in connection with the multi-million dollar trans-national call centre scam, in which hundreds of thousands of US citizens were conned into paying off fictitious debts. 29-year-old Akhilesh Singh is the 75th person to be arrested in the case, even as mastermind Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy continues to elude the police.
The Thane Crime Branch said that Akhilesh walked into its trap in Mira Road while he was visiting his residence, and that he was the one who had finalized the property deals to set up the call centre. Calling him the "technical brain" behind the scam, a Crime Branch source said he had set up the high-end equipment that wouldn't disclose the callers' numbers to their victims in the US.
ACP Mukund Hatote, the investigating officer in the case, said that Akhilesh had helped his brother-in-law Chandan Ajit Singh get the deal done for Hari Om IT Park, near Delta Garden building at Mira Road, to set up the call centres. The call centres were located on the second and fourth floors of a building at the IT park. Akhilesh was produced before a magistrate's court on Friday, which remanded him in police custody till Monday. "Akhilesh has admitted to have done three rental agreements for the call centres," ACP Hatote said.
The scam came to light in October when the police raided a clutch of call centres at Mira Road. Subsequently, the police shut down five call centres in Ahmedabad which too were allegedly involved in the scam. Last week, the Thane Crime Branch traced an Audi that Shaggy had purchased from star cricketer Virat Kohli in May. The police have already arrested Shaggy's mentor and former boss Jagdish Kanani, but the former is believed to have escaped to Azerbaijan.
According to US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, the con call centres stole over $300 million from the victims. The US Justice Department has charged 61 people and entities linked to the scam where call centre agents "impersonated" the US Internal Revenue Service and other Federal officials and demanded payments for non-existent debts.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tech-guru-of-con-call-centre-scam-arrested/articleshow/55263320.cms
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