SHILLONG: The wake of eight persons being arrested by Shillong Police in connection with the scam involving call centres in city set up by imposters to dupe American citizens, Home Minister, HDR Lyngdoh has said that the Meghalaya police, if required, would even coordinate with the Interpol to take the investigation into the scam to a logical end.
The Home Minister said that the state police at the moment was coordinating with Gujarat police, Assam police and the Enforcement Department.
It may be mentioned that eight persons have been arrested in this connection including three people from IFA enterprise, two from Zurich BPO and three from SS Netcom.
The modus operandi of the arrested persons was to impersonate as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials claiming to be from the US, aimed at duping American citizens to collect taxes online.
Later, half of the amount collected fraudulently was sent to India through Hawala channel and a lion share of the earnings were kept with the main heads of the racket in Ahmedabad.
Lyngdoh further informed that a special investigation team (SIT) has been constituted by Meghalaya police which is being headed by SP (City) Vivek Syiem and the SIT has eight members to investigate into the matter.
On being asked if action would be taken against the owners of the agencies which were indulging in illegal activities, Lyngdoh said that the law would take its own course and nobody was above law.
He also said that the matter was under investigation and police apart from recovering hard disks, cash, laptops and documents had even raided an office in Guwahati in which 85 computers were seized.
According to police earlier, the youths who were arrested used to earn around 80,000 US dollars per month on an average.