The Thane police, investigating the multi-crore-rupee Mira Road call centre racket that duped many US nationals by impersonating as US Internal Revenue Security officials, have come across a few "merchants", who were important links in the entire chain. These merchants used to get the money for the syndicate with a 30 per cent cut. Ever since the Thane police raided the call centres run by Thakkar at Mira Road on October 4, he has been on the run. How the racket workedA few bogus call centres were set up in Mira Road and those working there had got hold of a list of certain tax defaulters in the US from their US-based counterparts. Nine call centres in Mira Road were raided and 72 persons were arrested and 700 others have been served notices.

Source: dna October 23, 2016 01:30 UTC