HYDERABAD: An HR manager, who is linked to one of the companies operated by Chinese national Zhu Wei alias Lambo who organised the instant financing apps, was arrested by Hyderabad central crime station sleuths in Bengaluru on Monday.
CCS officials said the HR manager was responsible for hiring the employees who worked in call centres from where the loan defaulters were defamed and abused by tele-callers.
The CCS officials had earlier arrested Zhu Wei, linked to four different companies, along with several other Indian associates.
Police said that based on the leads which they got during the investigation, they are suspecting that the accused used call routing technique to avoid getting under the radar of government agencies. Generally, call routing is used for making international calls by criminals.
In this case, the accused, to given an impression that they are making calls from abroad and to maintain anonymity, used call routing technique to make calls within India, investigators found out. Police’s suspicions grew after they recovered different gadgets, which are generally used by criminals to facilitate multiple persons make calls in one go using the routing techique.
Police said the call routing technique is a search threat to security. It also causes revenue loss to the government, they added.
The arrested HR manager, during questioning, denied asking tele-callers to harass the defaulters. Police said she is the one who facilitates training employees to harass defaulters