Kolkata: ED bursts illegal call centre: ‘defrauded people globally’
CBI conducted search operations under PMLA at 11 locations connected to Kunal Gupta, the owner and director of M/s Met Technologies Pvt. Ltd in Kolkata.
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The ED initiated the investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by Bidhannagar Police alleging cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy under various sections of IPC, 1860 against M/s Met Technologies Pvt. Ltd and its associates. (Representational Image) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said that it has unearthed an illegal call centre operating from Kolkata’s Salt Lake and engaged in fraudulent activities, both domestically and internationally. Police have sealed the call centre.
The central agency said that it conducted search operations under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) at 11 locations connected to Kunal Gupta, the owner and director of M/s Met Technologies Pvt. Ltd in Kolkata.
The ED initiated the investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by Bidhannagar Police alleging cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy under various sections of IPC, 1860 against M/s Met Technologies Pvt. Ltd and its associates.
In a press note, the ED said, “The investigation revealed that the representatives of the company targeted gullible residents in the USA, the UK, and Australia through bogus tech support offers, deceptive website sales, and sham loan offers via counterfeit mobile apps, coercing victims into substantial payments. Kunal Gupta has established companies in the UK, the US, Australia.”
“It is also gathered that two of his UK-based companies have been levied huge penalties by Ofcom, the Telecom Regulator of the UK, for slamming, which is the illegal practice of switching a consumer’s telephone service provider without consent,” it said.
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