Overview
- Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who chaired a review Wednesday, told police, banks and tech officials to deliver a coordinated action plan to curb cyber and financial crimes.
- Officials reported 9.29 lakh complaints to the 1930 helpline from Andhra Pradesh and about ₹652 crore in losses tied to online scams.
- The CID Cyber Crime wing said timely interventions with banks have already stopped or recovered more than ₹116 crore from reaching fraud networks.
- Naidu pressed for a “golden hour” mechanism that quickly flags and freezes suspect transfers, and he urged use of RBI’s Mule Account Hunter AI to spot mule accounts.
- He also called for stricter checks on high-value transfers, especially on weekends, common SOPs across police, APTS and banks, a study of shell companies that bypass KYC, and continued work by cyber units and new police stations in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati.