Overview

• Delhi Police’s IFSO unit registered an FIR on September 19 and is tracing funds moved through multiple accounts after a month-long coercion campaign.
• Scammers posed as telecom staff and officers from the Mumbai Police, Enforcement Directorate and CBI, alleging links to terror financing and threatening harm to the victim’s family.
• The victim was made to report on video calls every two hours, sign secrecy undertakings under the so-called National Secrets Act, and believe his passport and assets were seized.
• Under pressure, he liquidated equity holdings and transferred about Rs 22.9–23 crore to accounts he was told the Reserve Bank of India would safeguard before returning after verification.
• Police described the case as among the costliest recent digital-arrest frauds in the capital, and said Rs 12.11 crore has been frozen, as a separate Dwarka complaint reports a Rs 6.22 lakh loss in a similar overnight video-call ruse.