Overview
- Police in Gujarat on Monday detailed a Rs 77 crore operation linked to 375 cases and arrested 16 suspects, while teams in Kanpur and Kerala announced additional arrests tied to gaming and fake trading platforms.
- Delhi Crime Branch earlier arrested RBL Bank employee Irshad Malik for opening a fraudulent account with forged documents, with a forensic report confirming the signature mismatch on the paperwork.
- Separate Delhi operations broke up mule-account supply lines used to launder proceeds through betting apps and investment scams, with seizures that included dozens of phones, passbooks, SIMs and ATM cards under new BNS and IT Act cases.
- Victims continue to report ‘digital arrest’ coercion, including a Bengaluru businessman who transferred Rs 15.45 crore under a fake CBI threat and a Mumbai widow who handed Rs 60 lakh in cash to couriers sent by impersonators.
- Probes now trace money through ‘mule’ accounts rented for commissions into USDT cryptocurrency, with investigators flagging overseas coordination on WhatsApp and Telegram and IP activity pointing to hubs such as Dubai and Cambodia.