Overview
- The actress received a bank alert while at a Cinepolis multiplex and reported four unauthorised international transactions that drained about Rs 2,43,852 from her card.
- One of the charges was a USD 2,525 transaction to Aeromexico and bank checks showed three other overseas debits that together totalled the reported loss.
- Kulhari immediately notified her bank, which blocked the credit card to stop further use, and she filed a complaint that led to an FIR at Amboli police station.
- The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell has taken over the probe and is using bank reference numbers, merchant routing and digital forensics to follow the transactions and device footprints.
- Investigators suspect the breach came through malware, spyware or another technical route, a pattern that highlights how fast cross‑border card fraud can move and how hard it is to trace or recover funds.