He gave one, a 25 million rupee ($365,000) Audi R8, to his girlfriend. Police said Thakkar led a lavish lifestyle, frequenting 5-star hotels and driving expensive cars with proceeds from the scam. “We are trying to complete the procedure to issue a red corner notice for Thakkar,” Parag Manere, a deputy commissioner at Thane police, told Reuters, referring to an Interpol arrest warrant. Reuters was unable to contact Thakkar for comment he is not known to have a lawyer, and police believe he fled to Dubai last month. Thakkar was also among those named by the U.S. Indian police say they are looking for Sagar Thakkar, a man in his early 30s also known as Shaggy, who they believe masterminded the scam. Charges include conspiracy to commit identity theft, impersonation of an officer of the United States, wire fraud and money laundering. Investigators have arrested 20 people in the United States, and Indian authorities have made 75 arrests following October raids on three premises in the Thane suburb of Mumbai. The department last month brought grand jury charges against 56 people in India and the United States for “telefraud” scams run from fake call centers in India. Justice Department says lost more than $300 million in an “enormous and complex fraud” running since 2013. She had just been scammed - one of at least 15,000 people the U.S. In transcripts of the conversation that investigators shared with Reuters, the man told her to keep the phone line open and drive to a nearby grocery store, where she bought $500 worth of iTunes gift cards and gave the ‘agent’ the redemption codes.
You can do that?” the man asked, adding that lawyers would look at her accounts and work out a monthly payment plan, but she had to pay half now. Panicking, she rang the number and told a man who said he was from the IRS: “I can pay $500,” half the sum demanded. MUMBAI (Reuters) - In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over “tax evasion or tax fraud”. tax officials, at a court in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, October 6, 2016. Police escort men who they said were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of tricking American citizens into sending them money by posing as U.S.
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