Thane police arrested Sagar Thakkar aka Shaggy, the 24-year-old mastermind of a massive call centre scam that conned hundreds of Americans of millions of dollars, after he was deported from Dubai.
The alleged mastermind of the Internal Revenue Service call centre scam in which thousands of Americans were defrauded to the tune of $300 million, has been arrested by Thane Police.
According to Thane Police officials, Sagar, who was on the run since the unearthing of the scam last year, was placed under arrest late last night after he arrived at the Mumbai airport.
A team of officers from Thane Police Commissionerate picked up Sagar from the airport, the officials said.
The scam, which operated since 2013 through at least half a dozen call centres in Thane, targeted at least 15,000 US-based tax payers, who were allegedly conned by Indian tele-callers.
Thakkar fled the country in October, right before the CBI raided their offices at Mira Road in Mumbai. He had set up similar operations in Gujarat too.
India was a major call center hub with foreign companies employing Indians for everything from reading out train timetables, answering bank client calls, to providing IT support. However, India is struggling to maintain its global outsourcing market share and lost its crown to the Philippines.
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