Operation CHAKRA-III underway, 7 call centers raided with 43 arrested

On July 22, 2024, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India, as part of a joint operation with INTERPOL and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a series of raids across seven call centers in Delhi, Guragon and Noida as part of Operation CHAKRA-III, which is still ongoing at the time of writing. They were all tied to a tech support scam operation that involved channeling payments from multiple countries to Hong Kong, China.

  • One of the companies was identified as Innocent Technology (OPC) Private Limited, which operated from DLF Cyber City in Gurugram.
  • 43 individuals were arrested for violating sections 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 (forgery of valuable securities and wills), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (dishonest or fraudulent use of a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian penal code
  • During the raid, the CBI seized 130 hard drives, 65 mobile phones, 5 laptops, incriminating documents, financial transaction details, call recordings and information about their victims.
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