New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) deported Angad Singh Chandhok, an Indian national wanted in multiple fraud cases to India from the United States. He was earlier convicted by a US court in a international tech-support scam in 2022.
As per the report published in news agency PTI, Chandhok was convicted for his role in targeting number of US citizens including elderly people.
Chandhok succeeded in defrauding many Americans
“An Indian national who sought asylum in the United States and then played a critical role in ensuring that an international tech-support scheme succeeded in defrauding Americans, many of them elderly, of their life savings, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison,” US attorney Zachary A Cunha had said in the in the 2022 statement.
Sharing further details, the department said that Chandhok also played an important role in organizing a complex network and transferring the stolen Modi. He was also accused of running a money laundering scam from California. He reportedly created a number of shell companies, which were used to transfer a large amount of money.
The accused had initially focused on fraud related to online tech support in which victims were made to believe that they needed to pay for an unnecessary computer scam. The operation soon extended to a travel fee scam, to steal money from more victims. “Chandhok, who had at least five others working under his direction, was in direct contact with high-ranking international members of the scheme,” the statement added.
Now, the authorities in India are expected to continue legal proceedings against Chandok bases on cases pending in the country.
