Thane: On Tuesday night, in Mumbai, police detained over 500 call centre employees for corrupting and robbing US civilians.

About, 200 policemen questioned to the employees, whole night after raids at three call centres. The companies are located at Mira Road in the Thane district. Around 700-800 people have been detained. It is an international racket.

According to the reports, “The call centre workers would pretend to be tax officials and blackmail Americans in the name of tax irregularities. The owner of one of the companies, reportedly based in the US, allegedly stole information and passed it on to the call centres. Executives would then call clients pretending to be tax investigators.”

The people who trusted the threats would gave thousands of dollars to settle their case. The raids commenced last evening and sustained till the early hours today.