Hawala assistance for phoney call centres
Kolkata: Police have discovered fraudulent call centres transferring their earnings—which they get by tricking victims who have moved abroad—through the hawala route via Dubai and Delhi for the third time in a row this year.
In an attempt to shut down this illicit financial network, police have now made the decision to write to the IT division and other organisations for assistance.
Another suspect in this scam, which mostly targeted Americans, has been taken into custody by the Anti-Rowdy Section of the Kolkata Police.
The accused, a Tiljala native named Muhammad Tariq, has been named. He was the brains behind delivering the money that was unlawfully taken from the US to Kolkata, according to the police. “He first transported the cash to Dubai, where he placed it in several electronic wallets. They were transported to India and exchanged for cryptocurrencies. An official said, “The bitcoin was exchanged for rupees, and hawala methods were used to transport the funds to Kolkata.
