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.