An Indian citizen who operated a huge call-center network that targeted Americans has been extradited from Singapore to stand trial in the United States, the US Department of Justice said in a press release on Friday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th April, 2019) An Indian citizen who operated a huge call-center network that targeted Americans has been extradited from Singapore to stand trial in the United States, the US Department of Justice said in a press release on Friday."The massive India-based telephone impersonation fraud and money laundering conspiracy defrauded thousands of US residents out of hundreds of millions of Dollars," the release said.
Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, 42, of Ahmedabad, India, is scheduled to be arraigned today before a US magistrate judge in the US state of Texas, the release said.
The United States unsealed an indictment against Patel and 59 other defendants in October for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and other illegal acts, the release noted.
By impersonating tax collectors with the US Internal Revenue Service, Patel and his associates managed to fleece 15,000 victims of more than $75 million, according to the release.
