Many of those arrested in neighbouring country have ties to apps running riot in India and were involved in the harassment of helpless borrowers, Kathmandu police say
The call centre that was raided in Kathmandu on Monday
The Nepal police raiding illegal app call centres have found that the centres in Kathmandu and Rupandehi were headed by Chinese nationals but registered in the name of a Nepali national. The investigation has also revealed that the call centres only targeted lower class Indian citizens in need of small loans. Some of the apps are being investigated by the Mumbai and Maharashtra police’s cyber cells.
mid-day had done a series of articles on the frauds committed by those behind the mobile loan applications in Mumbai and Maharashtra. Following these reports, former Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil ordered the state police’s cyber cell to treat the issues as one common case and investigate all the complaints registered across the state against the mobile loan applications. The Mumbai and state Cyber Cell registered more than 25 cases and one umbrella case respectively.
The police have also found that the call centre in Kathmandu had a kitchen where they used to cook daily for more than 1,100 people
During investigations, the police found the involvement of Chinese nationals as most of the servers through which the apps were uploaded on the play store were found in China. Both the agencies have compiled…
