Overview

• Mumbai Crime Branch arrested 12 linked to a Kandivali-based network that purchased 943 bank accounts, used about 180 of them, and routed ₹60.82 crore from scams including digital arrests, fake investments and loan cons.
• Investigators said the Mumbai group bought bank accounts and SIMs for ₹7,000–₹8,000 each and operated through fronts DG Surge Consultancy and Pritit Logistics, with seizures including laptops, 104 SIMs, 46 ATM cards and dozens of passbooks and chequebooks.
• The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau arrested Vaddevalli Lalitha Saran Kumar at the Indo‑Nepal border in a probe tied to SBI Shamsheergunj current accounts that saw unusually high transactions running into hundreds of crores and multiple crime links.
• Hyderabad cybercrime police detained six in a ₹1.05 crore investment fraud, finding over 50 mule accounts used to launder funds before converting them to USDT and transferring the cryptocurrency to a China‑based suspect identified as Chen Chen.
• Jharkhand CID identified more than 15,000 mule accounts linked to investment scams, named 40 high‑value layer‑1 accounts in an FIR and made seven arrests, while Punjab’s cyber wing arrested four tied to mule networks flagged through I4C hotspot analysis.