Overview
- Authorities said intelligence-led raids on December 18 at DHA Phase I and Phase VI dismantled illegal call centres and led to the arrest of 15 foreign nationals and 19 Pakistanis.
- Officials reported seizing 37 computers, 40 mobile phones, more than 10,000 international SIM cards, and six illegal gateway exchange devices.
- Victims were lured onto fabricated dashboards that displayed false profits, with activity amplified by automated bots inside tightly controlled Telegram groups.
- Preliminary probes estimate roughly $60 million in suspect transactions moved in US dollars and Bitcoin, with further technical evidence still being gathered.
- Nationalities of the foreign suspects are being withheld due to diplomatic sensitivities, and monitoring of other illegal call centres across Sindh has been intensified after drug use was also detected at the raided sites.