Pardafas Reporter
Police busting the racket organized in the guise of call center.
Nepal police have arrested two Chinese nationals and 115 Nepalis in various police action in the Kathmandu valley for their involvement in cyber activities swindling Indian citizens from Kathmandu.
The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range first arrested a group of 37 people, including a Chinese from Old Baneshwor in Kathmandu in the night of February 21. The Chinese boss, used to operate illegal business activities targeting Indians with the help of Nepali workers. They had also officially registered the company called Lewan Group as to provide legal IT services. But, in fact they were operating a scam racket from here targeting Indian populations.
Later police were able to bust a larger similar racket in Sano Thimi of Bhaktapur. Eighty people, including a Chinese national named Wang Zinao, 29, were arrested in the second raid. They had hired a three-storey building to operate the racket. Police also confiscated over 60 laptops and 30 desktops from them.
The Chinese people would lure Nepali for employment saying it a ‘call center’ providing them with a monthly salary of Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per month. They were also promised to get bonus amount upon completion of their mission from China itself.
Police Santosh said that arrestees ran illegal online ‘loan providing’ services in India. They used to lure Indians to use apps like Lone Cube, Rupee Way, and Wo Rupee from where general public could get a loan amount between INR 3,000 to 100,000 at an interest rate of 2.5 to 3.5 per cent for three to five months. The people seeking loan would also not have to provide any guarantee or proof of their monthly income, as per the police. However, those people were demanded the copies of their legal documents and access to their social media as per the police.
Police said that many people who get the money were then threatened or intimidate them asking to repay the money at higher interest rates. For this, the employees in call center would often block their social media or threaten to take legal action on the basis of the legal documents they had.
Those arrested will be produced in the court today as police have charged them under the Rastra Bank and Financial Transaction Act.
