BPO cheat flees after TV channel expose, cops clueless

KOLKATA: The white collar, educated criminal proved smart enough to be one step ahead of the police and made a quick escape, even as the cops were planning to raid his home and arrest him.

Sensing that a London-based television would reveal his identity and involvement in the selling of credit card information of his clients, the Kolkata-based call centre employee Sushant Chandak promptly escaped, leaving the police clueless of his whereabouts.

The CID of the West Bengal police is yet to secure any clues about what may have alerted Chandak to flee his house hours before the planned crack down.

When contacted by DNA, the DIG-CID (operations) Rajive Kumar said the CID did not have information on where Chandak may have headed. He, however, did not reveal who could have tipped off Chandak and refused to divulge any further details.

A British TV company had conducted a sting operation on the call centre employee willing to sell client information of 20,000 UK cardholders and were to air the programme ‘The Date Theft Scandal’, exposing Chandak.

The CID reacted following a strong note from Britain’s Data Protection Unit. However, they proved to be too slow for Chandak, and were met with the locked gates of his house. Chandak’s neighbours said they saw the 29-year-old leave with all his belongings in a rickshaw. There are no clues about the rickshaw-puller or where he was dropped.