Overview
- Telangana’s TGCSB, in Operation Crackdown 1.0, verified 1,888 suspicious accounts tied to about Rs 100 crore in losses and arrested 208 alleged mule-account facilitators, including two bank employees.
- Belagavi police in Karnataka identified roughly 2,900 mule bank accounts used to route fraud proceeds, blocked several of them, and opened four cases as they work to trace the operators.
- Hyderabad cybercrime officials arrested four suspects who allegedly supplied SIM cards used in a Rs 1.5 crore online betting fraud that lured a victim through promotional messages and fake customer support.
- Karnataka’s Cyber Command Unit in Mangaluru dismantled a ‘crypto‑as‑a‑service’ channel, arresting two men, seizing 1,479.31 USDT and documents, and linking more than 70 collected bank accounts to complaints across India with ties to China.
- Bihar’s state-wide Cyber Prahar 2.0 reported 141 arrests and 86 FIRs over mule accounts, citing instances of bank staff collusion and flagging networks that exploited fake KYC and mass SIM sales.