Hyderabad, July 28 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, July 27, arrested the alleged kingpin in the fake call centre case in which US citizens were targeted by the accused posing as technical support staff.

The arrested accused was identified as Vikas Kumar Nimar, aka Misty, who oversaw operations run from multiple cities across India. Nimar was produced before the court and subsequently sent to judicial custody. The ED has initiated an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on a First Information Report (FIR) filed at the Madhapur police station.

According to a report in the Times of India, an investigation revealed that Nimar operated cybercrime call centres in Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Luck...