Thane, March 17 A 42-year-old insurance consultant from Mumbra in the Thane district of Maharashtra was allegedly cheated of over Rs 71 lakh by cyber fraudsters who lured him into investing in cryptocurrency trading, police said on Tuesday.
A case has been registered against six individuals at the Mumbra police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, charging them with cheating and breach of trust. No arrests have been made to date.
The complainant, a resident of Kausa in Mumbra, alleged that the accused induced him to invest money in a firm, purportedly associated with a cryptocurrency platform, between August 2025 and March 2026.
He transferred Rs 71,60,015 through cash and online transactions at different times. However, the accused failed to return the invested amount and instead misappropriated the funds, a police official said.