Overview
- The Bengaluru Police arrested 22-year-old Mohammed Uzaif and his mother, Sabana Abdul Bari, and remanded them to judicial custody, while nine youths from Delhi were also held as alleged associates.
- Investigators say the duo managed about 4,200 mule accounts within a wider network of nearly 9,000, through which roughly ₹24 crore flowed from online frauds.
- Officials say they stopped or froze transactions worth ₹240 crore that were allegedly being routed to an overseas handler.
- According to police, the pair recruited account holders at government hospitals and colleges by offering ₹2,000–₹5,000, then collected debit cards and passbooks that associates used to withdraw cash and move funds.
- Raids recovered 242 debit cards, 58 phones, gold, cash, watches, cheque books, passbooks and payment/crypto materials, and the case is linked to hundreds of cybercrime complaints, with a Dubai-based Indian named Prem Taneja identified as the alleged coordinator.