THANE: The American agencies have shared the certified statements of the victims based in America who were duped in the fake call centre case.The police said that the official statements sought through Letter rogatory process and additional information of the recent judgement by a Texas court in the US, in which 21 persons were sentenced up to 20 years of imprisonment, will help them to make a water-tight case. The Thane police commissioner, Param Bir Singh, said that they have approached the US authorities and have sought the additional information from them about the conviction. The US court, on Friday, had pronounced the judgement and had quoted about the raid conducted by the Thane police in October 2016.TOI was the first to report on the series of raids at the Mira Road fake call centres on October 4, 2016. After the raids, the US authorities began the crackdown there and the probe led to the conviction of the accused in the US, said a police official.Singh told TOI that they have contacted the US authorities and have sought details of the conviction. Accordingly it shall be examined and can be used here. “Earlier, a representative from the FBI had visited us and we had shared some information with them. Our DCP crime has contacted the US embassy in Delhi and has sought for the proof. We have requested for all the details and we will see how we can use this evidence,” Singh said.Special prosecutor, Shishir Hirey, who has been representing the Thane police said that the evidences will help them in the court.A police officer said that the chargesheet is already in the court and the hearing in the case is progressing. “Shaggy is also named as an accused. It all started with our case only and they have quoted our case in the charges,” Singh said.According to US officials, the racket was run by Hardik Patil, along with Shaggy, in Ahmedabad and the other centres were functional in Mira Road. The accused and other conspirators perpetrated a complex fraud and money laundering scheme. As part of the scam, individuals from call centres in Ahmedabad impersonated as officials from the Internal Revenue Service or US Citizenship and Immigration Services and duped several US citizens.Shaggy, the mastermind, has been recently out on bail, while his sister Reema Joshi and another accused Tapesh Gupta were recently arrested.

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