Eight arrested after call centre racket busted in Navi Mumbai

NAVI MUMBAI: The cyber cell of Navi Mumbai police arrested eight persons after busting a call centre racket being operated from a mall in Bhandup. They are former employees of a private finance firm, which was also into insurance, based in Vikhroli.
Rohit Parte (29), Prashant Kotian (28), Nilesh Padwale (31), Pravin Nimbalkar (28), Rahul Vairal (26), Vikrant Gajmal (29), Paresh Daripkar (34) and Sumit Sawant (24) have been remanded to police custody till Sunday.

DCP (crime) Tushar Doshi said, “They operated from rented premises in Dreams mall. They misused data of customers that was with the firm where they worked earlier. Customers were contacted using the data and they were offered renewal of insurance policies or personal loans. They got victims to transfer processing fees to 30 bank accounts in Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad, opened using fake company names. They cheated more than 100 persons and pocketed around Rs 1 crore. Police have recovered Rs30,000 besides three laptops, 20 mobile phones and a computer used in the crime.”

Doshi said, “We also seized a box of SIM cards obtained using fake identity proof. We obtained the name of the person who supplied the cards and arranged the KYC for opening fake bank accounts. The person got a 40% commission of the amount deposited and has pocketed around Rs 40 lakh. We have frozen 30 accounts. Some victims fell prey as they offered large business loans with zero interest and some were offered renewal of insurance policies by paying a nominal sum-.”