PARIS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 20,000 people have been arrested in recent months around the world in an operation coordinated by Interpol to fight scams over the phone and the Internet, the France-based International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) said on Wednesday.
This large-scale operation, codenamed First Light, saw "10,380 locations raided, 21,549 operators, fraudsters and money launderers arrested, 310 bank accounts frozen and 153,973,709 U.S. dollars worth of illicit funds intercepted," Interpol said in a press release.
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