financial crime

New Delhi, March 23 A cyber fraud syndicate that cheated several people by promising high returns through bogus stock investments has been busted with the arrest of a 24-year-old student, police said on Monday.The accused, identified as Aniruddh Pratap Singh, was apprehended in Gurugram on...

Shahjahanpur (UP), March 23 A team from the Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Corruption Organization arrested a Fisheries Inspector here on Monday, allegedly for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000, a senior official said.According to police, the accused, Pooranlal, demanded a bribe in exchange for...

New Delhi, March 23 – A special CBI court in Delhi has sentenced a former Sub-Inspector of the Delhi Traffic Police to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case, officials said on Monday.The court convicted Jagmal Singh Deshwal, who was posted as Sub-Inspector and Zonal Officer...

Srinagar, March 23 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) zonal office in Srinagar, J&K, announced on Monday that it has provisionally attached Rs 16,86,465 as proceeds of crime generated through deception of innocent victims through what is being termed as "digital arrest."A press release by the...

New Delhi, March 23 – The ED has recovered assets worth nearly $5.6 billion, including those related to corruption cases, with a significant portion achieved in the past couple of years, Rahul Navin, director of the ED, said on Monday.Delivering the welcome address at the 12th Steering...

New Delhi, March 23 A 23-year-old domestic helper has been arrested in Jammu for allegedly stealing ₹3.5 lakh from the house of an elderly resident in Mukherjee Nagar, a north-west Delhi area, an official said on Monday.The accused, identified as Tilakram, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, has been...

New Delhi, March 23 Two individuals have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a Delhi resident of over Rs 21 lakh under the pretext of high-return online investments and prepaid services, police said on Monday.The police have arrested Narender, 24, and Prem Prakash alias Lovely, 38, both...

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...