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New Delhi, March 28 – The Delhi Police has busted an investment fraud syndicate with the arrest of five individuals allegedly involved in operating a network of mule bank accounts used for cyber crimes, officials said on Saturday.A team from the Cyber Police Station of the South-West District...

Thane, March 28 A case has been registered against a tour operator from Thane district in Maharashtra, for allegedly defrauding a woman of Rs 6.6 lakh by promising to arrange travel bookings for her clients, police said on Saturday.The Ulhasnagar police have registered a first information...

Ranchi, March 27 – The ED filed a chargesheet against a former SBI Branch Manager and his wife in a Special PMLA Court here in connection with a Rs 5.40 crore fraud involving the manipulation of 440 customer accounts, an official said on Friday.The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal...

Mumbai, March 24 A special CBI court here on Tuesday convicted a retired bank manager and nine others in a 2004 loan fraud case, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from one year to five years.The masterminds of the crime, brothers Kashinath Jadhav and Ganesh Pandurang Jadhav, were...

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...

Gadag (Karnataka), March 16 Five men were arrested for allegedly luring students with false promises of scholarship money and other incentives to open mule bank accounts in their names for illegal transactions, police said on Monday.The accused were identified as Vakdoth Vakeel (24), Raju...

Raipur, March 13 The Chhattisgarh Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing (ACB/EOW) filed a 1290-page chargesheet against an SBI manager accused of embezzling over Rs 2.78 crore through fraudulent transactions, an official said.The chargesheet against Vijay Kumar Ahke, who was serving as...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 11 – The Cyber Crime Police in Mangaluru have arrested two individuals for allegedly collecting bank account details from the public under the pretense of using them for a trading business and later using those accounts for cyber fraud linked to foreign operators...

In Hyderabad, on March 10, two bank employees, software engineers, seven students, and 15 women were among the 208 accused arrested by the Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) as part of a statewide operation against mule accounts that facilitate cyber fraud across India, a senior...

Belagavi (Karnataka), March 10 A massive cyber fraud network, allegedly using 2,900 dummy bank accounts to funnel fraudulent transactions, has been uncovered, police said on Tuesday.According to police officials, cyber fraudsters are increasingly targeting unemployed youth and women by luring...

Mumbai, March 9 The state consumer commission here has directed Bank of India to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to a senior citizen for "deficiency in service" related to unauthorized ATM transactions.In its recent order, the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission emphasized that for...

Thane, March 8 Police have registered a case against two individuals for allegedly cheating the owner of a private hospital in Thane district of Maharashtra, amounting to Rs 10 lakh, officials said on Sunday.According to the victim's complaint, the accused had entered into a 10-year...

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...

Shivamogga (Karnataka), February 27 Three individuals have been arrested in connection with cyber fraud cases involving over Rs 82 crore and 352 complaints registered nationwide, police said here on Friday.The accused have been booked by the cybercrime police station under Section 66(D) of the...

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...

New Delhi, February 27 The Delhi Police have arrested two brothers for allegedly defrauding a woman from Rohini by fraudulently transferring her mobile number and misusing her credit card details, according to a statement released by the police on Friday.The accused have been identified as...

Mumbai, February 19 A 41-year-old immigration officer working at the Consulate General of Malaysia office in Mumbai has lost nearly 79 lakh rupees in a cryptocurrency investment scam, police said on Thursday.The victim approached the police authorities about one and a half years after the...

Gandhidham, February 17 – The Cyber Crime Police in East Kutch have uncovered a network of organized mule accounts through which transactions exceeding Rs 182 crore were routed via 81 bank accounts allegedly used to facilitate cyber fraud across several states, officials said on Tuesday.Four...

Amethi, February 17 Police have registered an FIR after a case of fraud involving ₹42 lakh came to light in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.According to police, Ram Milan, a resident of Byoremahu village under the Shukul Bazar police station limits, filed a...

JK Police busts Rs 209 crore online investment scam in Ganderbal; nine arrestedThe Jammu and Kashmir Police have busted a Rs 209 crore transnational online investment scam in Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, arresting nine accused, including a Haryana-based MBBS doctor. Police identified...