financial crime

Thane, March 23 The Thane police have arrested cryptocurrency exchange platform CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal in connection with an alleged fraud of Rs 71.6 lakh, officials said on Monday.The company, however, claimed the FIR was false, and there was a conspiracy...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 23 An 81-year-old businessman is alleged to have lost over Rs 15 crore in a "digital fraud" scheme after fraudsters posing as CBI officials accused him of involvement in a financial crime, police said.According to officials, the senior citizen received multiple...

Thane, March 23 The Thane police have arrested two co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange platform CoinDCX in connection with an alleged fraud of Rs 71.6 lakh, officials said on Monday.The action follows the registration of an FIR at the Mumbra police station in Thane on March 16 against...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 22 An 81-year-old businessman in this city is alleged to have lost over Rs 15 crore in a "digital fraud scam" after fraudsters posing as CBI officials accused him of involvement in a financial crime, police said on Sunday.According to officials, the senior citizen...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 22 An 81-year-old businessman here is alleged to have lost over Rs 15 crore in a "digital fraud scam" after fraudsters posing as CBI officials accused him of involvement in a financial crime, police said on Sunday.According to officials, the senior citizen received...

Mumbai, March 22 Police have arrested a worker from Mumbai's Siddhivinayak temple for allegedly stealing money from donation boxes, officials said on Sunday.The incident came to light on March 20 after staff reviewed 10 days of CCTV footage from the revered Ganesha shrine in the city's...

Jaipur, March 22 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a station house officer and a constable in the Udaipur district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 8 lakh, officials said on Sunday.According to ACB Director General Govind Gupta, SHO Nirmal Kumar Khatri and constable...

New Delhi, March 22 Three men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a transport company employee of Rs 23 lakh at gunpoint near the Shastri Nagar Metro station in north Delhi, police said on Sunday.They said the robbery was carried out on the basis of an inside tip-off.On February 23...

Thane, March 22 Police have registered a case against a former female accounts clerk of a cooperative credit society in Thane city, Maharashtra, for allegedly stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 5.66 lakh belonging to customers, officials said on Sunday.The alleged offense took place between June...

New Delhi, March 21 A 48-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly staging a fake police arrest of two brothers in west Delhi, who were kidnapped and robbed of Rs 40 lakh in cash and other valuables, police said on Saturday.The arrested man, identified as Harish Sharma alias Rinku, was...

Hyderabad, March 21 Cyber criminals defrauded an accountant of a private company by impersonating the company's owner, police said on Saturday.The cyber criminals sent a message to the accountant on an instant messaging app in early March, including a picture of a woman and claiming that she...

Ahmedabad, March 21 A man allegedly involved in a 2021 murder-robbery case in Chhattisgarh was arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in Gujarat, an official said on Saturday.Ajaykumar, also known as Laxmisagar or Kimtishree Rajnarayan Mishra, who was wanted in connection with the murder of...

Dehradun, March 21 – A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation has convicted and sentenced eight officials to two years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.85 lakh in connection with a Rs 55 lakh fraud case involving the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2003...

New Delhi, March 21 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Engineer (AE) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in a bribery case, officials said on Saturday.The accused, identified as Hukam Singh Meena, was posted at the MCD’s Shahdara South Zone, QUC...

New Delhi, March 20 A 23-year-old man working as a trainee manager at a service apartment facility in southwest Delhi's Palam area has been arrested for allegedly stealing over Rs 1.25 lakh from the reception counter at the establishment, police said on Friday.The accused has been identified...

New Delhi, March 20 The Supreme Court on Friday granted regular bail to Muppidi Avinash Reddy, a key accused in the multi-crore Andhra Pradesh liquor policy scam.The case involves alleged large-scale irregularities and a structured kickback network that operated between 2019 and 2024.A bench...

New Delhi, March 20 The CBI questioned industrialist Anil Ambani for the second consecutive day in connection with a ₹2,929-crore fraud case, registered against Reliance Communications Ltd and him on a complaint by the State Bank of India, officials said.Ambani arrived at the agency...

Kolkata, March 20 – The Kolkata Police recovered a large sum of cash from the trunk of a vehicle in New Town, a northern suburb of Kolkata, on Friday.Following instructions from the new Commissioner of the Kolkata Police, security arrangements have been tightened in the run-up to the Assembly...

Kathmandu, March 19 Nepal police on Thursday arrested seven people, including six Indians, for running a fake travel lottery scam.Those arrested include Bibek Regmi, 26, a Nepali national from the Saptari district, currently residing in Gatthaghar, Thimi of the Bhaktapur district, and Indian...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested a man for his alleged involvement in defrauding the District Mineral Foundation (DMF), Mayurbhanj, of Rs 9.6 crore, an official said on Thursday.One builder, Brajesh Mishra, was arrested from Chhattisgarh...