Overview

• Unit II of Mumbai Crime Branch arrested 12 suspects after raiding two Kandivali firms that fronted account procurement, seizing 104 SIMs, passbooks and devices, and linking 943 bank accounts to Rs 60.82 crore routed from scams including digital arrest and fake investments.
• Investigators said the Mumbai ring supplied accounts to fraud operators overseas, with cases tied to 339 complaints nationwide and alleged links to networks in Cambodia, Thailand, China and Malaysia.
• Jharkhand CID, acting on I4C data, identified nearly 15,000 mule accounts tied to high-value transactions and arrested seven coordinators named in a July 29 FIR targeting layer‑1 accounts exceeding Rs 10 lakh.
• Hyderabad cybercrime police arrested six in an online investment case where a Tarnaka woman lost Rs 1.05 crore, with funds moved through more than 50 accounts, converted to USDT and transferred to a China-based suspect named Chen Chen.
• Punjab’s state cybercrime wing arrested four, seized Rs 10.96 lakh and digital evidence, and traced hundreds of mule accounts using I4C hotspot analysis, as MHA-led channels urge victims to report via helpline 1930 and NCRP for rapid freezes.