The racket involving nine people, suspected to have cheated thousands of people in the United States
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However, even after the US nationals realised that they were duped, they didn't register any complaint against the frauds as their orders were of medicines that are banned in the country. This enabled the accused to take advantage of their predicament.
Police received a tip-off from the informers and conducted a raid on the call centre by a team headed by DCP Akbar Pathan. Nine 9 suspects, Owner Elvis Peter Nunes, 39, Technician Mohammad Irfan Madar, 25, and 7 other callers, were arrested and seized computers and hard disks.
A case has been registered against the frauds under IPC section 420 (cheating) and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act and further probe was on, he said.
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