bank fraud

New Delhi, March 11 The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at 19 locations on Wednesday in connection with alleged embezzlement of ₹590 crore from the accounts of the Haryana government, maintained with IDFC First Bank in Chandigarh, sources said.The agency conducted searches in...

Jaipur, March 11 – The Cyber Crime Branch of the Rajasthan Police has issued a detailed advisory urging citizens to remain calm and act swiftly in case of erroneous UPI transactions.The advisory comes amid rising instances of digital payment fraud and mistaken transfers in the era of Digital...

Lucknow, March 10 – A Special CBI Court in Lucknow on Tuesday sentenced four individuals to eight years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) for a ₹6.75 crore bank fraud in Uttar Pradesh, along with a fine of ₹70 lakh each, according to an official.The Special Court convicted Ramji Mishra, Shyamji...

Chandigarh, March 9 The Chandigarh Police on Monday registered a case based on a complaint filed by the Chandigarh municipal corporation, which alleged that fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) worth Rs 116.84 crore issued by a manager of a private bank were fake.The civic body said that they...

Kolkata, March 9 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Kolkata Zonal Office, has filed a supplementary charge sheet before the Special Court (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing money laundering investigation against Shree Ganesh Jewellery House (I) Ltd. (SGJHIL) and others under the...

Hyderabad, March 6 – The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Hyderabad Zonal Office, has provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 26.86 crore in a bank fraud case involving Sowbhagya Ispat India Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL).The properties, attached under the provisions of the Prevention of Money...

New Delhi, March 6 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a series of raids on various businesses and individuals associated with industrialist Anil Ambani on Friday.According to agency sources, the coordinated raids were conducted at 10 to 12 locations across Mumbai.A team of...

New Delhi, March 6 The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at multiple locations in Mumbai and Hyderabad on Friday as part of an investigation against entities linked to Reliance Power Ltd., a group company of businessman Anil Ambani, officials said.Reliance Power denied that the...

Mumbai, March 6 Mumbai police have arrested a man from Gujarat for his alleged involvement in a cyber fraud case, in which a senior citizen was defrauded of Rs 2.25 crore after being threatened with arrest in a fake terrorism-related investigation, an official said on Friday.The accused...

New Delhi, March 6 The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at multiple locations in Mumbai and Hyderabad on Friday as part of an investigation against Reliance Power Ltd., a group company of businessman Anil Ambani, officials said.About 10-12 locations linked to the company and its...

Washington, March 6: Artificial intelligence and deepfake technology are accelerating financial scams in the United States, lawmakers were told, as banks and credit unions warned that criminals are using increasingly sophisticated tools to impersonate victims, manipulate consumers, and steal...

New Delhi, March 3 A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of an alleged kingpin in an over Rs 8.94 crore bank fraud case, saying that the offense was serious and committed in a systematic manner through layered transactions.Additional Sessions Judge Shunali Gupta rejected the bail...

New Delhi, March 3 The Delhi Police have arrested three men and brought a woman under preventive detention in connection with an alleged cyber fraud module that cheated a grocery shop owner in northwest Delhi of Rs 17 lakh by posing as stock market investors, an official said on Tuesday.The...

Shimla, March 2 Five people were arrested here on Monday for allegedly assaulting and forcing a man to transfer over Rs 20,000 into different bank accounts via UPI in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, police said.The accused have been identified as Bhupender Singh, Chandan Prasad, Golu...

New Delhi, March 1 The Delhi Police has arrested 27 men in connection with cyber fraud cases involving more than Rs 1.5 crore, from 11 states, following a week-long pan-India operation, an official said on Sunday.According to the police, the accused were involved in at least 10 major cyber...

London, March 1 An elderly Indian-origin couple from Leicester, who were swindled out of a significant portion of their savings when they booked a flight to Ahmedabad only to discover the tickets were fake, are sharing their experience as a cautionary tale for others.Dinesh, 80, and Shashikala...

New Delhi, February 27 The Delhi Police has arrested a 30-year-old cyber fraudster, alleged to be involved in multiple cases across states, for duping a city resident of Rs 6 lakh by posing as a KYC official, officials said on Friday.Bimal Rabidas, a resident of Dhanbad in Jharkhand, was...

Berhampur (Odisha), February 27 A court in Ganjam, Odisha, has issued a notice to a man, allegedly for the attachment of his property acquired through operating mule bank accounts to aid cybercriminals, police said on Friday.The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Khallikote, issued a...

Jaipur, February 27 The Dungarpur Police on Friday claimed to have busted an organized gang allegedly involved in siphoning off money from life insurance policies through forged documents.Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the fraud, which involves approximately Rs 58...

Thane, February 27 The daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver in Dombivali, Thane district, has approached the police, claiming that unauthorized transactions amounting to Rs 2.6 crore were made in bank accounts opened in her name.Nidhi Tiwari, a Master's student at a prominent college in Kalyan...