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Police Crack Down on Interlinked Cyber-Fraud Networks Across India

Coordinated raids across Delhi, Mumbai, other states have netted dozens of arrests, seized phones, SIM cards, prompting probes into insider breaches, mule networks, cryptocurrency laundering.

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Overview

  • Delhi Police’s IFSO unit concluded a six-month probe by arresting 18 suspects in a ₹2.6 crore SBI credit-card fraud and recovering 52 mobile phones, SIM cards and leaked customer data from a Gurgaon call centre.
  • Mumbai Cyber Police dismantled a multi-city share-investment racket that duped over 30 investors of more than ₹65 crore using a fake company, forged SEBI documents and rapid crypto conversions.
  • Three men, including a London School of Economics graduate, were arrested in Delhi for a WhatsApp-based extortion scheme traced to Thailand that threatened victims and demanded Tether payments.
  • A separate operation in West Delhi uncovered an illegal call-centre fraud network that deployed malicious APKs to harvest OTPs, routed funds through mule accounts in Panipat, Bathinda and Hyderabad and victimised private bank customers.
  • Authorities have invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the IT Act and PMLA powers to register FIRs, freeze assets and coordinate cross-state and international tracing as full recovery of laundered funds remains incomplete.