Thousands of Indians forced into cybercrime at Chinese-run ‘scam centres’ in Southeast Asia: CBI
The victims, lured with lucrative job offers in Dubai and Bangkok, were trafficked to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, the agency said in an FIR.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has alleged in a first information report that thousands of Indians have been trafficked to Southeast Asian countries where they are forced to work as cyber criminals at “Chinese control scam centers,” reported The Indian Express on Sunday.
“Around 7,000 cyber-related complaints on an average are registered with the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal daily and most of the frauds have origin in three Southeast Asian countries — Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos,” the newspaper quoted Rajesh Kumar, the chief executive officer of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, as saying.
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre operates under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
“We have found that many web applications used to commit the crimes are written in Mandarin, so we cannot rule out China connection,” Kumar added.
The victims were allegedly lured with the promise of lucrative jobs in Dubai and Bangkok and trafficked to Southeast Asia.
“They are forced to work as ‘cyber criminals’ under threat and duress in Chinese control scam centres,” the Central Bureau of Investigation claimed in its report.
The agency filed the case after several meetings with the home ministry, the telecom ministry and the Reserve Bank of India. The bank and ministries were asked to identify and plug the loopholes in the banking and telecom...
