Overview
- Crime Branch cyber units carried out coordinated raids across Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Punjab, arresting alleged masterminds of digital-arrest and investment scams and seizing three crypto wallets holding about 552,944 USDT, roughly Rs 5 crore.
- Investigators named Sumit Kumar, Atul Sharma, Rahul Manda, Varun Anchal and Amit Kumar Singh among those held in separate cases, with one operator described as working under a Dubai-based handler.
- The West Bengal Cyber Crime Wing traced a pan-India fraud network that allegedly siphoned about Rs 317 crore via 148 shell companies, seized devices and documents in November 6 searches at premises linked to industrialist Pawan Ruia, and said roughly Rs 170 crore was converted to crypto.
- A separate report said Bengal police registered a money-laundering case naming Pawan Ruia, family members and linked firms, citing NCRP trails tying hundreds of complaints and layered accounts to the network, with further freezes and searches underway.
- In related actions, a Mumbai magistrate denied bail to six accused in a Rs 58.13 crore digital-arrest case after 21 arrests, Panchkula police made arrests in a stock-investment and a digital-arrest case, and cyber units issued fresh public advisories as new victim complaints surfaced in Greater Noida West and Pimpri-Chinchwad.