Overview
- Police arrested Pawan Ruia on Tuesday in New Town after the Calcutta High Court withdrew interim protection, and a Bidhannagar court sent him to seven days’ custody on Wednesday.
- The case stems from a 2024 complaint by senior citizen Swapan Kumar Mondal, who lost ₹93 lakh after installing a malicious APK, with investigators tracing the funds through shell-company bank accounts allegedly directed from Ruia Centre.
- Probes cite National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal data tying 1,379 complaints nationwide to the accused and allege a network of roughly 148 front companies that routed hundreds of crores, often converted to cryptocurrency and moved overseas.
- Gurugram police say a Special Investigation Team busted illegal SIM-box call gateways linked to handlers in the Philippines and Cambodia, arresting five and seizing devices and 504 SIM cards used to mask international scam calls as local ones.
- Cyberabad police reported 17 cases cracked and 19 arrests in a week and secured 884 court refund orders worth ₹4.35 crore, underscoring a broader push across states to dismantle mule-account networks and return money to victims.