Highlights 1 Mumbai Police has arrested kingpin of extortion racket Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy. 3 Sagar ran a dozen call centres in Thane that targeted at least 15,000 US-based tax payers. The police has arrested Sagar Thakkar alias Shaggy, the alleged kingpin of a scam duping thousands of Americans of over Rs 192 crore by reaching them via call centres posing as US officials to extort money from them. The US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had earlier said these call centres stole more than Rs 192 crore from their victims. Thane police had also seized Thakkars Audi car worth Rs 2.5 crore from Ahmedabad in October last year.

Source: India Today April 08, 2017 16:04 UTC