HDR says will go to Interpol if needed

SHILLONG: Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh said on Friday the State police would coordinate with the Interpol, if required, to solve the call centre scam.
Talking to journalists here on Friday, Lyngdoh said the state police at the moment are coordinating with their counterparts in Gujarat and Assam and even with the Enforcement Department.
Eight persons, including three from IFA Enterprise, two from M/s BPO Zurich 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 was sent to India through Hawala channel and a lion’s share of the earnings was 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 that is being headed by SP (City) Vivek Syiem and the SIT has eight members to investigate the matter.
On being asked if action would be taken against the owners of the agencies which were indulging in illegal activities, Lyngdoh said the law will take its own course and nobody is above law.
He also said the matter is 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 the police earlier, the youths who were arrested on an average, used to earn around 80,000 US dollars per month.