Extortion ‘call center’ was operating from India and Uganda, Delhi Police busted International Syndicate in collaboration with FBI

New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has busted an International Syndicate Extorting Money in association with the US investigative agency FBI. In this operation, 4 suspects have been arrested who were running an international racket of extorting money from American citizens. Two other members of this racket are also on the radar of the investigating agencies, who have been arrested from America (US) and Canada (Canada). In this whole case of international extortion, 6 people have been arrested. The police have also presented the four suspects in the Patiala House Court, where they have been sent to police custody for 5 days. The Special Cell and the FBI have estimated the syndicate to have collected around $20 million from the victims so far.

According to the report published in Times of India Delhi Police According to K Special CP HGS Dhaliwal, the accused have been identified as the gang leader Vatsal Mehta (29) and Partha Armarkar alias Uttam Dhillon (28), residents of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Deepak Arora (45) and Prashant Kumar (45), residents of Delhi. . Accused other than India Uganda I was doing recovery by running a call center. The accused pretended to be members of the US Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other agencies. America Used to collect huge amount by threatening the people in the name of action.

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The FBI interrogated more than 50 victims and the Delhi Police spoke to two of them over video calls. Special CP Dhaliwal of Special Cell said that for some time Delhi Police was continuously taking action in the country and abroad with the help of foreign investigative agencies. In this episode, in December 2022, 4 accused were arrested from Delhi, one each from Canada and America.

Special CP Dhaliwal said that the main suspect has been identified as Vatsal Mehta of Janakpuri, West Delhi. His colleague is Partha Armarkar of Ahmedabad. Both of them have been arrested.

This is said to be the third operation of Dhaliwal’s team with the FBI. He had earlier busted a similar racket from West Delhi. Wanted gangster Deepak Boxer was also caught from Mexico with the help of FBI.

As part of the coordination between the investigating agencies, the American investigative agency FBI and Interpol informed the Delhi Police that a gang duping US citizens is active in Uganda whose members are Indians. The accused keep on coming and going from Uganda and India. In Uganda and India, extortion is done by intimidating foreign nationals through call centers. After the information, the team of ACP Jai Prakash, Inspector Awadhesh and SI Harjeet, posted in the Special Cell’s Counter Intelligence and Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit, started the investigation.

Suspects travel to Uganda and India to dodge investigative agencies
After this Mehta and Armarkar and two others Deepak Arora and Prashant Kumar were caught by the police who have been arrested from Uttarakhand. All of them used to work for the gang from other places. The suspects traveled between Uganda and India to dodge the investigative agencies and avoid being caught.

Dhaliwal said the suspects contacted the victims and claimed to have found videos and evidence implicating them in child pornography or drug trafficking.

The recovery amount is sent abroad through hawala
HGS Dhaliwal says that gang members are active all over America. The accused make recovery through dollar, online, crypto or gold by intimidating people. The gang members also go to the victims and extort money. Later, the recovery amount is sent abroad through hawala.

The accused running this syndicate also used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media to find victims. Apart from this, darknet is also used by people who are involved in drug or other illegal business apart from visiting child pornography website. Often their search remains on the dark net. The gang’s research team identifies such people. In this also people with money are searched.

One of the accused had presented himself as the director of Washington Interpol.
To collect extortion money, the accused Uttam Dhillon poses as the Director of Washington Interpol and a senior official of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Being afraid of this introduction of the accused, drug dealers and child pornography people easily get ready to pay huge amount.

CBI also helped in coordination with Interpol.
Some victims contacted the police in their respective regions in the US. The matter was brought to the attention of the DEA and the FBI. Surveillance suggested that the suspects were living in India following which the Special Cell was contacted. Interpol through CBI has also helped in coordination.

The FBI shared technical evidence and information on the suspects after which look-out notices were issued to monitor their movements. The police first caught Armarkar in Ahmedabad and he took the police to other people.

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