This story is from October 23, 2016

Cops to study past raids in Gujarat to join missing links

Cops investivating the call centre scam believe that the roots of the fraud could be traced to Ahmedabad where the employees of the BPOs were engaged in making several hoax calls to US citizens for last several years and had in the past attracted legal action by the police.
Cops to study past raids in Gujarat to join missing links
The Thane police, seeking to get to the bottom of the fraud, is seeking assistance of the Gujarat police to blow the lid off these con call centres.
THANE: Cops investivating the call centre scam believe that the roots of the fraud could be traced to Ahmedabad where the employees of the BPOs were engaged in making several hoax calls to US citizens for last several years and had in the past attracted legal action by the police.
“The interrogation of the suspects arrested in the Mira Road scam revealed that the epicentre of the scam is in Ahmedabad where young entrepreneurs initiated their business on such fraud operations.
In fact, the local police, too, had acted against these BPOs and ensured that it was shut down,” said an official associated with the probe.
In fact, the city police team had visited Gujarat immediately after the October 4 raid on the call centres in Mira Road which are believed to be managed by Sagar Thaker aka Shaggy. In fact, the 23-year-old techie is said to have ambitious expansion plans and had initiated the process to hire 400 employees in his new venture in Ahmedabad.
The Thane police, seeking to get to the bottom of the fraud, is seeking assistance of the Gujarat police to blow the lid off these con call centres. “We will seek details of all the previous raids of such call centres and the arrests made and will check if there is any link with the suspects of the Mira Road and Borivili con call centres,” a police official said.
He added that the investigation has revealed some common names, some mobile numbers who were engaged in similar modus operation. This exercise according to police shall help them in the investigations and narrow down on the common suspects who are running the scam centres.
The officer informed that more than 13 raids were carried out by Ahmedabad police at seven call centres at the prime locations based in Ahmedabad. Meanwhile, the police claimed that the mastermind behind the hoax call business Jagdish Kanani was not cooperating with the investigators. Kanani is belived to have invested crores in real estate in the last couple of years, the police said.

The accused is believed to have got a couple of flats as well was commercial establishments in the suburbs of Mumbai includes –Mulund, Borivali, Malad amongst others. “So far we have found that Kanani has got flats and shops in some of the prime locations we have sought the property documents of it to confirm the cost in which he purchased and the present market value. It is too premature to comment anything on this as a of slueths are unearthing the other properties,” said a police officer.
Investigators suspect that these properties could have been purchased from black money earned from the fake call centres that Kanani running since half-a-decade.
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