Overview
- Delhi Police arrested three men linked to the Greater Kailash case in which an NRI doctor couple lost ₹14.85 crore, identifying mule accounts in Vadodara and Prayagraj and probing links to handlers abroad.
- Days earlier in the same locality, a 70-year-old woman lost ₹6.9 crore; investigators traced primary recipient accounts in Kolkata, Delhi and Chhattisgarh and froze over ₹2.89 crore while noting dispersal into more than 1,000 mule accounts.
- Kadapa’s Badvel police said they dismantled a cell that ‘digitally arrested’ a 70-year-old advocate, arresting nine suspects and freezing a financial ecosystem exceeding ₹22 crore built on multi-layered mule chains and crypto cash-outs.
- Delhi Police separately busted an interstate investment racket tied to Cambodia-based handlers, arresting eight and finding nearly ₹4 crore routed through mule accounts in 14 days with at least 63 linked complaints.
- Maharashtra Cyber Police facilitated a ₹2 crore refund in a ₹58.13 crore digital-arrest case, while cyber units in Hyderabad and Kannur reported fresh arrests and court-ordered refunds in related frauds.