Police crackdown on telemarketers

The RCMP has arrested about 130 people after cracking down on a telemarketing scheme in Montreal Tuesday.

The Mounties raided five locations in the Montreal area, including residential homes and a downtown office building on Belmont Street.

The scheme allegedly bilked about 1,500 small and medium-sized businesses in Canada, the United States and Europe, who were contacted by telemarketers posing as representatives of a government agency.

The companies were charged as much as 10 times the retail value of office equipment including first aid kits, and were threatened when they didn't settle their bills, RCMP spokeswoman Elaine Laverge said.

The products were sold "under pressure, and by using a lot of pressure," she said at a press conference in the city on Tuesday.

The raids cap a two-year investigation triggered by complaints from affected businesses.

Belmont Street is closed between Beaver Hall and University Street while police finish their raid.

Union Street between Belmont and René-Levesque Boulevard is also closed for the time being, RCMP said.

With files from the Canadian Press

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[zerodeckfreak]

im moving to canada

[binkiie4dictator]

I love Canada, even the cops are cute

[Majoraspirit]

Now if the RCMP could do that with all these Aboriginal gangs over here in Saskatchewan! :D

[Shukria123]

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[Shukria123]

FREE JAGGI SINGH! FREE CRAIG JONES!(political prisoners of the RCMP)

[Shukria123]

RIP ROBERT DZIEKANSKI

[Shukria123]

ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED PIGS

[chicken4247]

ALL TELEMARKETERS SHOULD BE CHARGED FOR THEFT AND FRAUD!!!!

[getalife67]

I just hang up in there face no response.

[SinnFein4ever]

I love Canada.

[MrPimpMaster99]

haha thay all need to go to jail and be some one's bitch!!! good no makeing call's in jail

[iwanttowinthelottery]

@laudiumWP I guess you didn't listen to the whole video....Watch it again and pay attention to just before the 2:00 mark.