SHILLONG, SEPT 1: Meghalaya police would also seek the cooperation of the International Police Organization, commonly known as ‘INTERPOL’ to further investigate into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) call centre racket, which was busted recently in the state capital.
Interpol is an inter-governmental organization facilitating international police cooperation. Its General Secretariat employed a staff of 756, representing 100 member countries.
“The state police will also be seeking the cooperation of the Interpol, if it is required later during the investigation into the IRS scam,” home minister HDR Lyngdoh told reporters here on Friday.
Apart from coordinating with police from other states like Assam and Gujarat, he said that the state police are also working with the Enforcement Directorate, a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for fighting economic crime in India.
The Enforcement Directorate is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance comprising of officers of the Indian Revenue Services, Indian Police Service and the Indian Administrative Service.
“The 8-member special investigation team (SIT) headed by SP (City) Vivek Syiem is still conducting a thorough investigation into the matter and are coordinating with police from other states on this,” he said.
Lauding the state police for doing a good job, Lyngdoh said from the arrested persons, a raid was conducted in Assam in which 84 CPUs were seized from M/s BPO Zurich at Christian Basti, Guwahati recently.
Earlier this week, city police raided the apartment rented by Ms/ BPO Zurich at Lower New Colony, Shillong in which electronic gadgets used in the scam, cash Rs 1 lakh and several incriminating documents were recovered and seized.
So far, nine persons have arrested for their alleged involvement in the fake call centre scam by the city police.
These include employees and owner of IFA Enterprise Call Centre, M/s Dasanbha Enterprise Call Centre and SS Net Com.
Asked, the home minister admitted there are big names involved in the scam and said, “Investigation is still going on and law will take its own course as nobody is above the law.”
Meanwhile, the SIT is also investigating whether the arrested persons have any connection with Sagar Thakkar alias ‘Shaggy’, the mastermind of the IRS call centre scam in which thousands of Americans were defrauded to the tune of $300 million, who was arrested earlier in Mumbai.
By Our Reporter
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