Call Fraud Operator Ordered to Pay $9M to Victims

A man who owned and ran a network of call centers that defrauded US victims of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and must pay out $8,970,396 to his victims. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, aka Hitesh Hinglaj, 44, of Ahmedabad, India, will serve his sentence in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for charges of wire fraud conspiracy, general conspiracy to commit identification fraud, access device fraud, money laundering, and impersonation of a federal officer or employee.

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