Overview

• Police identified the detainee as Pawan of Bikaner, picked up during a raid at a Ludhiana hawala operator’s premises.
• The latest seizure takes total arrests to 39 and raises overall recoveries in the case to ₹2.15 crore.
• Officers say the racket posed as a software solutions outfit to target victims in the United States and Canada.
• Preliminary findings indicate transactions were conducted primarily via Bitcoin alongside informal hawala channels.
• Raids continue to trace a Ludhiana-based hawala handler as police map links to alleged operator Amrinder Singh alias Sabhi Tohri and associates named Suraj in Delhi and Shen in Kolkata.