The man who headed an international criminal call center racket that conned Americans into handing over tens of millions of dollars in the belief they were being chased for money by the US government has been jailed for 20 years.
Indian citizen Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, who also went by the name Hitesh Hinglaj, was sentenced this week in Texas for defrauding thousands of US citizens between 2013 and 2016. As well as being found guilty of wire fraud, device fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and impersonation of a federal officer, Patel has been ordered to pay $8.97m back to his victims.
The scummy scammer was arrested in India in 2016 though was released after he paid a bribe, US prosecutors say. And so they watched and waited for two years until he left the country on a trip ..
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