Overview
- Bengaluru police arrested a 22-year-old and his mother in a mule-account racket linked to alleged Dubai-based handler Prem Taneja, seizing devices and freezing roughly Rs 240 crore across thousands of accounts.
- Officers say the Bengaluru network recruited vulnerable people to open bank accounts for small commissions, routed proceeds through rented accounts, and used satellite phones and cryptocurrency to obscure trails.
- Delhi reported fresh high-value incidents in Greater Kailash, including a 69- to 70-year-old woman coerced over nine days to transfer about Rs 6.9–7 crore after being held under continuous video surveillance.
- Delhi Police’s IFSO unit arrested five suspects in a separate case where a 78-year-old retired official was forced to send Rs 2.19 crore to so-called verification accounts during a staged ‘digital arrest.’
- The CBI took over a Munirka complaint involving Rs 1.64 crore, while Chandigarh Police arrested six in a Rs 38 lakh case that allegedly converted funds into USDT under instructions traced to contacts outside India.