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In a joint operation with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Interpol, the Delhi Police have arrested four men who allegedly cheated thousands of US citizens of more than 20 million dollars by running fake call centres...
The accused Parth Armarkar (28), Vatsal Mehta (29), Deepak Arora (45) and Prashant Kumar (45) were arrested from different parts of the country by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police over the last couple of weeks, police said..
Police said Mehta, a native of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, is the head of the syndicate and supervised the functioning of the Uganda-based call centres...
HGS Dhaliwal, Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), said, Our team received information through secret informers, FBI and Interpol that some international cybercriminals are based in India, the US and Uganda..
After Armarkars arrest, the team nabbed Mehta, who was also on the run, from Ahmedabad, the senior police officer said.. Arora and Kumar, co-conspirators in the syndicate, were traced and arrested from Uttarakhand, police said, adding the FBI was also looking for them...
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