Overview
- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar police raided a three‑storey call centre operating as KS/Connect Enterprises, detaining 116 people and seizing laptops with US citizens’ data, fake court orders and scripted pitches.
- Investigators say staff threatened American victims over alleged tax dues, coerced gift‑card purchases, siphoned the codes and converted the proceeds into cryptocurrency.
- Courts sent six alleged operators to police custody until November 6 — including Abdul Farooque Mukadam Shah and Valay Vyas — while 99 others were remanded to judicial custody.
- Mumbai Cyber Police arrested Ravi Ananda Ambore and Vishwapal (Vishpal) Jadhav in a Rs 50.5 lakh ‘digital arrest’ case, tracing Rs 29.5 lakh to a first‑layer mule account used across several frauds.
- Pune cyber police registered an FIR after an elderly couple lost about Rs 1.19–1.2 crore in a similar scam and the octogenarian husband died of a heart attack weeks later, as probes track mule accounts, crypto conversions and cross‑state links including Goa and Gujarat.