LUDHIANA: The police found during investigation that the fake call centre racket busted here on Wednesday evening had inter-district and inter-state links. The city police on Friday reached Mohali, where a similar centre was being run from a flat in the outer area of Kharar.
After arresting 27 accused in the Ludhiana fake call centre case, the police came to know about a Gujarat resident through whom hawala money was being received. According to the officials, the Gujarat resident has also been nabbed from Mohali.
A cop said, “The accused running Ludhiana and Mohali call centres are inter-linked. On information gathered from the arrested accused, a team of Ludhiana police reached Mohali and conducted a raid at a centre being run from a flat in Kharar. About eight persons were present there and have been detained for questioning.”
The official said, “The accused had been taking help of the Gujarat resident who used to provide them hawala money made by duping the UK and the USA nationals. Besides, another aide of this gang is in Delhi and will be traced soon.”
Additional deputy commissioner of police (investigation) Rupinder Kaur Bhatti, confirming the development, said, “The police will share further details after questioning the accused.”
The city police had busted a fake call centre on Wednesday evening and arrested 27 accused, who were duping foreign nationals. The accused used to contact them and say that their identities have been used to execute different kinds of frauds and a case would be lodged against them. Thereafter, the accused would make them transfer money to UK and USA-based accounts.
