US wants fake call centre boss extradited

  • | Friday | 23rd June, 2017

Sources said when Shaggy was holed up in Dubai following the raids on his call centres, the US tried to extradite him. Thakar is named as the call centre operator as well as payment processor.TOI was the first to report the call centre busted by Thane crime branch and also the arrest of Shaggy. However, Shaggy came to India in April.In October, 61 individuals, including Thakar, were charged by the US justice department for being a part of the scam. The letter is yet to reach Thane police . His nine call centres at Mira Road were raided by Thane crime branch raided on October 4 following days of sustained tracking and gathering of intelligence on the murky goings-on inside the call centres.

THANE: US investigation agencies have sought extradition of 24-year-old Sagar Thakkar aka Shaggy, mastermind of the con call centres that duped hundreds of Americans of millions of dollars by impersonating as agents of the Internal Revenue Service , US equivalent of the Income Tax department.Sources said the US agencies have sent a letter to the government of India. The letter is yet to reach Thane police . Shaggy is lodged in Thane central jail while his sister Reema, who reportedly handled finances, is absconding.A Thane police officer said it would be difficult to extradite Shaggy as they would need him here for the investigation and court hearings. Sources said when Shaggy was holed up in Dubai following the raids on his call centres, the US tried to extradite him. However, Shaggy came to India in April.In October, 61 individuals, including Thakar, were charged by the US justice department for being a part of the scam. On October 28, 2016, the grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas indicted 61 persons of which 32 of them are based in India who are linked to five call centers operational from Ahmedabad, where agents impersonated IRS and demanded payments for non-existent debts. Thakar is named as the call centre operator as well as payment processor.TOI was the first to report the call centre busted by Thane crime branch and also the arrest of Shaggy. His nine call centres at Mira Road were raided by Thane crime branch raided on October 4 following days of sustained tracking and gathering of intelligence on the murky goings-on inside the call centres.

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