Twenty-one members of a huge India-based fraud and money-laundering conspiracy that used phone scams to cheat Americans of millions of dollars have been sentenced to varying terms in prison. The sentencing took place in Houston on Friday.
All 24 US-based men who are accused of taking part in a phone scam operated with the help of call centres in India have been taken into custody and have entered guilty pleas, with the last man offering a guilty plea on 13 November.
A man alleged to be behind duping Americans of millions of dollars through phone scams has been arrested in Mumbai.
A total of 56 people in the US and India, and five call centres in India, have been charged by the US Department of Justice of defrauding Americans of millions of dollars through phone scams.