With a monthly salary of two lakh Nepalese rupees, a 12th-pass Bihar man was the highest-paid employee in the three illegal call centres busted in Nepal, sources in the country’s Cyber Bureau have told mid-day. He was the second-in-command to the Chinese nationals who ran the call centres and was instrumental in setting up the facilities—at Tinkune and Thamel in Kathmandu and one in Butwal—that targeted Indian borrowers of digital lending apps.

Niranjan Kumar