Assam police bust call centre duping people in US, 37 held
Assam police Tuesday busted a call centre racket and arrested 37 persons, including nine women, for allegedly duping a large number of people in the US.
A database of around seven lakh American citizens was seized from the office of Avenir call centre, which was operating from a rented house in Guwahati, clocking a revenue of over Rs 50 lakh per month, police said.
The money collected from the US nationals after duping them come through a "hawala network" from American soil to Guwahati with the help of brokers based in the two countries, Assam Additional Director General of Police (CID) L R Bishnoi told reporters here.
"We have been working on this for 15 days. Last night, around 40 CID officials raided the complex and picked up 37 persons, including the main kingpin of the entire network, but one managed to escape," he said.
The arrested persons hail from Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Nagaland and Delhi, Bishnoi said.
Explaining the modus operandi, he