Nearly a month after this paper’s correspondent visited the neighbouring nation to find out about the harassment calls a Mumbai resident had been getting from there, the Nepal police busted three call centres making calls to borrowers of instant loans via different apps. One of the centres busted is in the capital city of Kathmandu, from where the police arrested a suspected Chinese national on Monday. The deputy inspector general of Nepal police told mid-day they have also arrested some Indians.
 
MID-DAY was the first to highlight that the loan app scam has links to Nepal as well as China. The Mumbai police, while investigating two cases, traced to Nepal the IP address of the WhatsApp calls made to the victims. This paper’s reporter, Samiullah Khan, even visited the office of the internet service providers in Nepal, but the people there refused to divulge any details.

Arrested several people working at the call centre