Overview

• India’s CBI, working under Interpol’s Operation HAECHI-VI, arrested eight accused and identified 45 additional suspects tied to transnational cyber-enabled financial crimes.
• Investigators seized USD 66,340 and blocked 30 bank accounts linked to the alleged schemes, with probes continuing into financial trails.
• Two people were apprehended on FBI and U.S. Justice Department inputs for allegedly coercing minor U.S. girls online to share explicit material.
• Illegal call-centre networks were dismantled in New Delhi and Amritsar for schemes posing as tech support to target U.S. nationals, with a similar hub shut in Siliguri that targeted Germans.
• Interpol says the wider HAECHI-VI effort spanned 40 countries, recovering about USD 342 million, freezing nearly 400 crypto wallets and blocking roughly 68,000 bank accounts.