THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
New Delhi, Oct 7: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out extensive raids across Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, uncovering a large-scale money laundering racket linked to “fake” call centres that allegedly cheated foreign nationals of millions of dollars.
According to officials, these centres—operating from areas such as Rohini, Paschim Vihar and Rajouri Garden in Delhi—posed as customer support representatives of global firms like Microsoft, Apple and Charles Schwab Financial Services.
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In some instances, the fraudsters even pretended to be police or investigating officers, intimidating their victims with threats of arrest to extort money.
The illegally obtained funds were later laundered through cryptocurrency wallets and converted into digital assets and gift cards, with transactions running into several million US dollars.
The agency conducted searches at around 15 locations in Delhi, Noida and Gurugram, acting on FIRs filed by the Delhi Police against Karan Verma and his associates.
These raids were carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
