financial fraud

Gurugram, March 24 Gurugram Police have arrested four individuals for allegedly providing mule bank accounts opened in the names of fake firms to cybercriminals based in China, to mask and launder proceeds from cyber frauds, officials said on Wednesday.Police have recovered cheque books...

Gorakhpur (UP), March 24 A man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly impersonating an IAS officer to marry a woman and defraud her family of Rs 15 lakh, police said.The complainant alleged that his daughter came across the profile of the accused, Pritam Nishad alias Arjun Singh (30), from Etah...

New Delhi, March 24 – In a major crackdown on cybercrime, the Delhi Police arrested 11 individuals on Tuesday who were involved in a well-organized investment fraud racket operating across Delhi and Mumbai. The accused allegedly defrauded a senior citizen of ₹22.67 lakh by luring him with...

New Delhi, March 23 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth around ₹34.51 crore in connection with an alleged financial fraud involving the United Services Club in south Mumbai, an official statement said on Monday.The attached assets include 35 movable and...

Thane, March 23 The complainant in the ₹71.6 lakh fraud case, in which cryptocurrency exchange platform CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were arrested, told a Thane court on Monday that he had recovered his invested amount from another accused and no longer has any...

New Delhi, March 23 – The Delhi Police's Central District Cyber Police on Monday cracked a case involving online investment fraud worth Rs 21.46 lakh, arresting two individuals for cheating a complainant by promising high returns and prepaid services.Officials said that the money trail has...

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...

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...

Aizawl, March 20 – Cyber crime is rapidly increasing in India, with over 86,000 cases registered in 2023, Gauhati High Court Judge Justice Nelson Sailo said here on Friday.Addressing a one-day training programme on cyber crime, Justice Sailo noted that in 2017, the Supreme Court recognized the...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 126 immovable properties worth over five thousand crore rupees across Punjab and Delhi. The ED stated that the action was taken in connection with a massive financial fraud linked to PACL Limited, under the provisions of the Prevention...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 126 immovable properties worth over five thousand crore rupees across Punjab and Delhi. The ED stated that the action is taken in connection with a massive financial fraud linked to PACL Limited under the provisions of the Prevention of...

New Delhi, March 20 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached 126 immovable properties, valued at ₹5,046.91 crore, spread across Punjab and Delhi, on Friday, in connection with a large-scale fraud perpetrated under the guise of a real estate investment scheme, operated by the Pearls Group...

Ranchi, March 20 The Jharkhand CID has arrested three individuals from Hazaribag for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 19.85 lakh by posing as providers of an LPG connection, officials said on Friday.The arrests were made following a complaint lodged at the CID's cybercrime police station in...

Mumbai, March 20 – A shocking case of cyber fraud has emerged from the Sion area of Mumbai, where a 22-year-old woman was allegedly cheated of Rs 15.93 lakh by fraudsters posing as spiritual healers who claimed to use "jinn" (supernatural spirits) and tantric powers. The scam, which began on...

Jajpur (Odisha), March 19 A day after arresting a banker, Odisha vigilance officers arrested his father and mother along with another man on Thursday for allegedly embezzling government funds amounting to Rs 5.56 crore in the Jajpur district, officials said.The accused have been identified by...

New Delhi, March 19 The CBI questioned industrialist Anil Ambani for nearly eight hours on Thursday in connection with a Rs 2,929-crore fraud case, registered against Reliance Communications Ltd and him on a complaint by the State Bank of India, officials said.In a separate case, the CBI...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 – The Odisha Vigilance arrested the main accused and his wife on Thursday in a case involving the embezzlement of ₹5.56 crore from government funds."The main accused in the ₹5.56 crore misappropriation case, Pradip Kr Mohanty, a retired headmaster who was re-employed at...

Bhubaneswar, March 18 – The Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday arrested an official of a private bank for his alleged involvement in misappropriating over Rs 5.56 crore of government funds in connivance with his father, a retired teacher.According to Vigilance sources, the accused bank official...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 18 The Kerala police said on Wednesday that fraudsters are exploiting people's concerns about LPG cylinder shortages to deceive unsuspecting customers under the guise of booking gas.The police said that cyber fraud gangs are becoming active in the state under the...

Kanpur, March 18 A 60-year-old retired school teacher in Kanpur was allegedly defrauded of ₹1.57 crore in a sophisticated, multi-layered cyber scam, police said on Wednesday.The fraudsters impersonated prominent global figures such as Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, American singer Josh Turner, and...