Meghalaya police may seek Interpol help on IRS scam

Shillong, Sep 2: Meghalaya Home Minister, HDR Lyngdoh has said the state police may seek Interpol’s help in connection with fake Internal Revenue Service call centres operating here in the state. “The state police will seek the cooperation of Interpol, if required later, during investigation into the call centres scam,” Mr Lyngdoh said yesterday. While admitting that there are big names involved in the scam, the Home Minister said, “Investigation is still going on and law will take its own course as nobody is above the law.” Meghalaya police have arrested nine persons here after busting three alleged fake IRS call centres - IFA Enterprise, BPO Zurich and Dasanbha Enterprise. Following the arrest of the alleged fraudsters, the state police have formed a Special Investigation Team, headed by Superintendent of Police (Shillong city) Vivek Syiem to further unravel the people behind the scam. In fact, the Meghalaya had also busted a call centre operated by BPO Zurich in Assam’s Guwahati. Police have recovered and seized more than 200 hard disks, CPUs, electronic gadgets, cash and incriminating documents. Mr Lyngdoh said that the state police would also coordinate with the Enforcement Directorate as well as police in other states like Gujarat, Maharashtra and Assam. IFA Enterprise, operating from the S.S. NetCom building, was run by Amit Bhowmick and Sunny Mukherjee alias Faisal. Mukherjee is still at large. Police have arrested Bhowmick, Vivek Thapa, Naina Gurung and Pynshan Mawthoh. Rijo Christian Joseph and Sweety Sutnga of BPO Zurich were also arrested, besides owner of Dasanbha Enterprise, Nicky War. Two employees of S.S. Net Com - Christopher Kurbah and Kiren Damai were arrested for their alleged links with IFA Enterprise. Mr Syiem, who heads the SIT suspects that more people are involved in this racket. UNI