Fraud Call Centre
Nepal: Police raid call centre in Rupandehi, arrest Chinese national for involvement in running fraud business
Kathmandu: Nepal police recently raided a call centre in Nepal's Rupandehi district and arrested a Chinese national.
The call center named Blue Sky Business Solutions was found involved in fraud business, Khabarhub reported.
According to the police, thousands of Indian citizens including Nepalis have been cheated by this call center.
The police informed that the gang had been running a fraud business for months sending messages through social media saying that they have won a lottery, hacking other people’s social networks including Facebook, and asking for a certain amount of money to collect lottery tickets and goods.
Chief of Area Police Office, Butwal DSP Thug Bahadur KC told the news portal that the recovered goods and gadgets have been sent to the forensic lab for investigation.
After the arrested Indian citizen Niranjan Kumar stated that their head office is in China and they also have call centers in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitwan, the police raided a call center run by another Chinese citizen in Gairigaon, Tinkune, Kathmandu.
Those Chinese citizens who have been living and working illegally in Nepal for a long time were producing and selling liquor called ‘Chinese millet local liquor’ in that inn without government permission.
The main planner of this call center running under the name of Sky World Service Pvt Ltd was also Chinese.
Kathmandu police have detained 41 people including one Chinese citizen from the call center.
A Chinese gang that used technology in Nepal to cheat millions through Nepali youths was also arrested on the dam side of Pokhara on June 30.
Two Chinese men and one woman were operating this call center through a company called New Diamond Technology.
The frauds had used the citizenship of Suman Tamang of Kakani-7 of Nuwakot to run this company.
The police seized Rs 4,597, 180 along with 89 Nepalis who had been used in their (Chinese) fraudulent business.
The Chinese, who came to Pokhara on a visit visa, had been cheating Nepalis in the name of a software company by renting a flat in Bajra Inn Hotel on the dam side for 6 months.
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