Overview
- Maharashtra Cyber submitted a 2,458-page chargesheet naming 32 arrested and 41 wanted, with rewards announced for key fugitives including Vijay Khanna and Devendra Saini.
- The filing says scammers opened thousands of accounts using forged KYC and fake SIMs, routed money through 13 layers and current accounts of shell firms, and converted funds to cryptocurrency with links traced to China, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
- Police say a 72-year-old Mumbai executive was coerced through staged video hearings and impersonation of officials to transfer ₹58.13 crore over 40 days after being told he was under a so-called digital arrest.
- In a separate probe, Maharashtra police report an international online forex and gold trading racket exceeding ₹200 crore, with seven arrests and links to 51 cases across multiple states while masterminds are suspected to be outside India.
- Wider enforcement continues as Hyderabad police reported 43 arrests and over ₹2 crore refunded in December, Hyderabad arrested Mohammed Ashfaq whose account saw ₹3.7 crore linked to 29 cases, and Visakhapatnam police held a Telangana man over a mule account used in an ₹11 lakh digital-arrest fraud.