CBI Drive against Organised Cyber Fraudsters; Three Arrested
CBI Drive against Organised Cyber Fraudsters; Three Arrested
Mumbai, 27th July 2025
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three accused persons for their involvement in cybercrime. The CBI Economic Offences Branch (EOB) Mumbai, acting on specific source information and after verification registered a case against a mule account holder; unknown cyber fraudsters; unknown bank officials and unknown others for committing a cybercrime on the allegations that an amount of Rs. 3.81 Crores was received in the said mule account in a single day on 02.07.2025 from various cyber victims. After receiving credits in the said account, the money was further transferred to more than a hundred mule accounts opened pan India in 1st layer. The amount of cyber fraud was further transferred/ layered to thousands of accounts before reaching to actual cyber fraudsters.
During the investigation, CBI unearthed the entire conspiracy of opening of said mule account by the bankers and the middlemen without proper KYC norms or Customer Due Diligence or Initial Risk Assessment. The guidelines issued vide the RBI Master circular and certain internal guidelines issued by the bank have been violated.
During the searches, the CBI seized several incriminating documents and digital evidence, mobile phones, iPad, Bank account opening documents, transaction details, KYC documents, etc.. Identification of individuals, including middlemen involved in opening of mule accounts in Mumbai, facilitating arrangements of stay of account holders at Nagpur, and transferring of funds in other mule accounts through other agents of Nagpur was done by CBI. It is also found that agents of Nagpur and mule account holder have received their commission in cryptocurrency, which was further distributed among the co-conspirators.
The three arrested accused persons are presently under Judicial Custody.
Investigation is continuing.
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