Opposition AITC leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday said the investigating agency should go after kingpins behind the fake US’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) call centre racket.
The racket was busted by the state police in 2017.
This was following raids conducted at the IFA Enterprise Call Centre, which was operating from the premises of SS NetCom, Dhankheti, Shillong.
Speaking to reporters, Sangma said that the investigating agency should go after them.
Stating that there are different layers of conversation, the former chief minister said, “…the initial conversation, talks about the data information then the next conversation is shifted to another layer then another layer. The final criminal activity takes place in the final player. So you have got to know the modus operandi of this whole mafia, the cartel which is in operation across the globe. It’s an international cartel which is working on this.”
“So therefore any investigating agency can go to the root cause of only if they have if they have the collaborative approach with all the state law enforcing machineries, investigating machineries, the national level and the international level then only they can really crack and know who the kingpin is. In absence of that it will be just an eyewash,” he added.
Sangma said, “There’s a reason why I express concern, you know what has happened to the case? Is the case being investigated in a proper earnest, with proper collaboration because given the kind of in-depth investigation that investing agencies have to go through including forensic.”
“It will require for the state agencies, the state authorities, the state police department to ask for collaboration. Did they ask? Have they asked? These are the questions you can ask to the authorities,” he added.