what happens when fraudsters them selves are duped if they are gujaratis they are sure to find a solution matching their enterpriseinvestigation by the city crime branch of the extensive call centre racket has revealed how a group from the state went to china despite zero knowledge of chinese and without a shred of familiarity with the country this group forged a connection in china after a few trusted allies swindled its moneythe city crime branch officials said for the first time in india chinabased processors used itunes cards and gave up to 70 money back to the con call centre operatorspayment processing backbone of the businessmultiple teams of the crime branch led by jcp j k bhatt dcp deepan bhadran and acp rajdeepsinh zala have so far established the lead providers call centre owners callers voip minutes providers and logistics experts associated with the scam however the most important players in the racket became known after the arrest of thomas patel 28 who worked as a payment processor his arrest led police to maulik trivedi dipak asudani and later aakash vadhvani and ruchir andharia alias r bhai natives of bhavnagar call centre operators got around 55 of the money said an investigator the reason was the difficulty in routing money and hiding the trail he said typically processors overseas used to take over 30 whereas another 15 was paid to various levels of processors in india the blank portion so far was the 30 component he said confessions of akash ruchir dipak and maulik filled the gap by pointing at chinathe thriving businesspolice cracked down on con call centres in the city only after thane police visited a few call centres in ahmedabad in connection with a multicrore scam and a us court handed an indictment in the internal revenue service irs the us tax department scam the indictment named five citybased call centres and multiple players including sagar thakar as accused the first raid on such a call centre took place in midnovember in chandkheda the city crime branch named five other call centres involved in illegal operations operating from areas such as vastrapur and satellite the vastrapurbased call centres are believed to have had a daily turnover of over us 10000callers impersonated irs officers and threatened us citizens to pay nonexistent tax arrearsmoney managersmaulik and ruchir during another visit opened bank accounts in china and hong kong said an investigator so far we have got details of 125 accounts with agricultural bank of china containing over rs 10 crore only six to eight accounts were opened by the group whereas others are found to have transactions within the bank for transfers the visits opened the new payment highway on which on one side there were itunes card numbers received from us citizens getting duped on the other side were payments in dollars and yuan officials believe that the foreign currency was used by a few indian businessmen for purchase of chinese goods in return they gave indian