Canada: Indian-origin guy held for alleged involvement in transnational phone scams

In keeping with a document, one Naman Grover, has been arrested in Canada for his alleged involvement in transnational phone scams, in which he was once recruited by means of out of the country scammers to procedure and launder locally-received cash.

The 22-year-old Indian-origin guy, a resident of Ontario’s Mississauga, has been charged with fraud of greater than $5,000, ownership of the proceeds of crime, and cash laundering, in step with a Toronto Solar document.

The arrest got here after the Royal Canadian Fastened Police (RCMP) issued a country-wide arrest warrant towards Grover. “Cash mule sought after by means of RCMP following an investigation in reference to a chain of transnational phone scams. A Canada-wide arrest warrant was once issued for Naman Grover (22), of Mississauga, Ontario,” the RCMP wrote on Twitter on October 14.

“The scammers, maximum regularly primarily based in India and Pakistan, use operatives in Canada to procedure and launder locally-obtained cash,” the RCMP was once quoted as announcing. Thru those operatives, the scammers too can distance themselves from the stolen cash till it’s been “made blank”, in step with the document.

“Cash mules are a a very powerful part of this advanced rip-off as they facilitate the go with the flow of sufferers’ finances to individuals of those illicit organisations. Arrests and costs ship a transparent and vital message — those that get entangled as cash mules will likely be arrested, criminally charged and prosecuted,” RCMP inspector Jim Ogden was once quoted as announcing within the document.

Most of the native “cash mules” have been recruited of their house nations and got here to Canada on scholar visas, police mentioned.

(With inputs from PTI)