ED’s Gurugram team has arrested Chandra Prakash Gupta in the big illegal call center scam going on in Delhi-NCR. Chandra Prakash Gupta is an important accused in tech-support fraud cases and was absconding after the CBI raid in July 2024, on which a non-bailable warrant was also issued.
ED raided 10 locations
ED had started this investigation on the basis of the FIR registered in CBI. During the investigation, 10 locations were raided in Delhi-NCR on 19 and 20 December 2025. In these raids, jewelery worth about Rs 1.75 crore, more than Rs 10 lakh in cash, 4 luxury cars, 8 expensive watches, many digital devices and important documents were recovered. However, other big accused in this case Arjun Gulati, Abhinav Kalra and Divyansh Goyal are still absconding.
Many expensive liquor shops were also found
During the raid, more than 220 expensive liquor bottles were also found from several places. Which was much more than the prescribed limit. Information about this matter was given to the State Excise Department and separate FIRs were registered as per law. ED says that the investigation is still going on.
American people were being targeted
ED’s investigation revealed that American citizens were being targeted through these illegal call centers running from Noida and Gurugram. Such fake pop-up alerts were shown on the victims’ computers, which looked exactly like Microsoft’s security messages. Out of fear, people would call the number shown on the screen, where the people at the call center would call themselves Microsoft tech-support.
The victims were then asked to install remote-access software like TeamViewer or AnyDesk; once access was gained, the accused would take complete control of the victims’ computers and extract their personal and banking information.
victims were taken advantage of by scaring them
Taking advantage of fear and panic, victims were told that their accounts were being hacked and hence they should immediately transfer the money to a safe place. Under this pretext, money was deposited through wire transfer into accounts which were said to be linked to the Federal Reserve. Later this money was sent to Hong Kong accounts, converted into cryptocurrency and then sent back to the accused and their companies in India through several shell companies.
Fraud of US$ 1.5 crore
The investigation so far has revealed that between November 2022 and April 2024, this gang defrauded about 15 million US dollars (USD 15 million). ED said that properties worth more than Rs 100 crore have been purchased with the money earned from crime, which have been identified.
Earlier, in the search conducted on August 20, 2025, expensive properties, investment related documents and many important evidences were found. ED says that the search for the absconding accused and the money-trail investigation is going on rapidly, and more arrests may be made in the coming days.
