MUMBAI: The Mumbai Crime Branch announced that it has busted a fake international call centre allegedly involved in selling counterfeit Viagra and other controlled medicines to US citizens, arresting eight individuals and launching a search for the prime accused and others still absconding.
According to officials of Crime Branch Unit 9, the operation was being run from a premises in Kevnipada on S.V. Road in Amboli, Jogeshwari (West). The call centre, which identified itself as “Team Grand 9 Security Services LLP, ” had allegedly been active for the past six to seven months.
Investigators said employees posed as US-based telemarketers, impersonated representatives of pharmaceutical companies, and targeted American citizens whose private data had been illegally sourced.