Police arrest 149 in raid on large scam call centre
'During the raid, a large call centre was uncovered, which was involved in Ponzi schemes and investment fraud,' the agency said in a statement.
'Through this fraudulent network, the public was being deceived and vast sums of money were being illegally collected.'
The agency said they were acting on a tip-off about the network, operating in the city of Faisalabad, a manufacturing centre.
It said the raid was at the residence of Tasheen Awan, the son of the former chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority, a government agency.
All those arrested were in custody, including 78 Pakistanis and 48 Chinese, as well as citizens from Nigeria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Myanmar.
About 18 of the total were women, it added. — AFP
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