Overview
- Police in Pimpri Chinchwad arrested six suspects across Hyderabad, Mysuru, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai, with their bank accounts flagged in about three dozen cases involving transactions nearing ₹100 crore.
- Investigators say the same network touches the ₹58 crore Mumbai case, which Maharashtra Cyber reports has links to Hong Kong, China and Indonesia with money funneled through multiple crypto wallets.
- A fresh FIR in Mumbai details a 60-year-old businessman held on a nonstop video call and coerced into transferring ₹53 lakh after impersonators staged a sham court hearing and issued forged notices.
- A Pune retiree lost roughly ₹99 lakh after receiving a fake arrest warrant bearing a forged signature of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, with transfers traced to mule accounts registered in Thane.
- Mumbai Police also shut a fake international call centre and arrested five suspects accused of defrauding US and Canadian victims via loan scams, as cyber units urge victims to use helpline 1930 and verify unsolicited legal threats.