Overview
- TGCSB teams arrested six suspects in coordinated operations in Kerala and Bengaluru tied to three Hyderabad cases that caused losses exceeding ₹16 crore.
- The six include five mule account holders and one agent, with named arrests of Renju Pathakku Reji, Arun Sreenivas, Sanal V Menon, V. Jayaprakash, Balaraju and Harish G.
- Two victims were coerced in separate “digital arrest” schemes, losing about ₹5.66 crore and ₹7.12 crore after fraudsters impersonated TRAI, CBI, RBI and police.
- The third case involves a fake trading and IPO platform that induced a Begumpet businessman to invest about ₹3.40 crore, using company accounts to route funds.
- Separately, Hyderabad cybercrime police arrested Pune resident Vishal Anil Nirmal in an illegal betting racket linked to roughly ₹55 lakh, dozens of mule accounts, 22 related cases and seized devices.