Cops bust fake call centre, nab 8

Kolkata: Cops have bust an illegal call centre at Fairlie Place in BBD Bag and arrested eight persons who duped the victims of some lakhs by luring them with fake loan offers. The accused also duped the victims on the pretext of installing mobile towers and ATMs. The accused were identified as Jayanta Das, Ronit Das, Kunal Chakrabarty, Tapash Bramha, Vikash Ch Naha Roy, Shibu Samaddar, Neha Singh and Ipshita Das. The victims realised the fraud after paying processing fees to the accused. “We conducted a raid on the fourth floor of a commercial building and found the fake call centre — RB Trading Marketing and Republic Global Services— operating there,” said an officer said.Cops seized 40 cordless land phones, several SIM cards, mobile phones and fake documents from the possession of the accused.