The Thane police on Wednesday made 50 employees of fraud call centres — which were allegedly used in a racket to cheat US citizens — fill a form that gives details about the roles of their bosses.
The Thane police on Wednesday made 50 employees of fraud call centres — which were allegedly used in a racket to cheat US citizens — fill a form that gives details about the roles of their bosses. The Thane police is taking the help of four IT experts to probe the technical details as part of its probe into the call centre scam, wherein the employees of eight such units allegedly extorted US nationals in the name of their tax and immigration authorities. The police has arrested 72 accused in the case so far.
The Thane police raided nine call centres based in Mira Road during a one-week period this month. It has arrested 72 accused, and sent notices to the remaining 600 employees of the call centres. On Wednesday, the Thane police called 50 of those 600 employees for further investigations. Crime branch officers gave them a form, in which there was a column meant for the names of the company’s directors and supervisors, the position of the employee concerned and his salary. The form later asked for explanations on who the employee’s trainer was and the work that he or she was made to do at the call centre.
Crime branch officers have got information that all the employees would get paid in cash every month. Most of them had a salary of Rs 40,000. A crime branch officer said, “Most of them weren’t issued any official appointment letter and those that were issued mentioned a different designation than the work the employee was actually made to do. When a search was conducted in the house of the call centre owner, not a single bank account document about any work-related transactions was found.”
