A man from the Ahmedabad’s Ghodasar area is among the four arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police for defrauding US citizens of over $20 million through a ‘con call center’ racket.
Delhi Police arrested Vatsal Mehta (28), who was allegedly the head of a crime syndicate and was overseeing the operations of a call center racket in Uganda. Mehta was arrested in August 2018 along with 21 others by police in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s Lasudiya area for defrauding Americans through a call centre. The Delhi Police in coordination with the FBI Legal Attaché and Interpol have arrested 4 persons for allegedly defrauding US citizens of over $20 million by running a scam call center.
Apart from Mehta, the other accused are Parth Aramarkar (28), Deepak Arora (45) and Prashant Kumar (45). Police said the accused were running call centers in several parts of India, including Uganda and Delhi.