Ahmedabad, July 17 (IANS) A cyber fraud network allegedly linked to 54 fraud cases involving more than Rs 2.86 crore across 18 states has been dismantled by the Cyber Centre of Excellence, with the arrest of three accused who police say operated fake companies, opened corporate bank accounts and supplied mule accounts to cyber criminals. According to officials, investigators found that the accused had allegedly facilitated cyber frauds worth more than Rs 2.86 crore through a network of fake firm…
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Gandhinagar, July 11 (IANS) Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence (CCoE) has arrested 19 people in three separate investigations under “Operation Mule Hunt 2.0”, uncovering alleged cyber crime networks involving mule bank accounts, fake business entities and corporate bank accounts allegedly used to facilitate cyber fraud linked to more than Rs 330 crore across multiple states. According to the officials, the three investigations relate to separate cases registered in Gandhinagar and invol…
Bhavnagar/Gandhinagar, July 10 (IANS) The Cyber Centre of Excellence of Gujarat Police has arrested three more accused in connection with the hacking of Bhavnagar District Co-operative Bank Ltd., taking the total number of arrests in the case to 10. Investigators allege that the accused helped route proceeds of cyber fraud by arranging bank accounts into which funds generated through the alleged hacking were transferred.The investigation, as of now, has shown that the accused illegally accessed …
Gandhinagar, July 10 (IANS) The Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence on Friday arrested seven people for allegedly operating an interstate online fraud and extortion racket that targeted customers who purchased sexual enhancement medicines through social media advertisements, with investigators saying the group may have cheated between 4,000 and 5,000 people across the country. The department said the operation dismantled a 15-seat call centre in the Vastral area of Ahmedabad and prevente…
Gandhinagar, June 29 (IANS) The Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence has arrested five members of a cyber fraud syndicate during the ‘Operation Mule Hunt 2.0’ for allegedly cheating a victim out of Rs 2.30 crore through a fake forex trading investment scheme operated via the platform named RoboForex. According to the officials, the fraud began after the victim was approached on the Dilsafar application by a person using the name “Jigyasha Kapoor”, who had first established contact through…
Gandhinagar, June 13 (IANS) A statewide review meeting chaired by Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi earlier this month set the stage for what has become one of the state’s largest coordinated crackdowns on cybercrime-linked financial networks. Held through video conference and attended by the then Director General of Police (DGP) K.L.N. Rao, city police commissioners and district police chiefs, the meeting directed law enforcement agencies to intensify action against…
Gandhinagar, June 5 (IANS) Two more arrests have been made in a widening cybercrime investigation into an alleged cryptocurrency network worth over Rs 226 crore, which authorities say is linked to suspected terrorist funding channels, international drug trafficking operations, and transactions routed through the dark web. The Cyber Centre of Excellence of CID Crime confirmed that the case was registered following detailed blockchain and technical analysis of cryptocurrency movements.According to…
Gandhinagar, June 2 (IANS) Gujarat Police will launch “Operation Mule Hunt 2.0” across all districts from Tuesday, intensifying its crackdown on mule bank accounts used by cybercriminals to receive, transfer, and launder money obtained through online frauds. The decision was taken at a statewide review meeting, chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi, via video conference on Monday night.Senior police officers, including Director General of Police K.L.N. Rao, attended the meeting, wh…
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, May 24 (IANS) Gujarat CID Crime’s Cyber Centre of Excellence has arrested another accused in an alleged international cryptocurrency syndicate involving more than Rs 226 crore in transactions linked to terror financing, dark web narcotics trade, money laundering and cyber fraud, officials said on Sunday. The accused has been identified as Ghulamali Qureshi (25), a resident of Mirzapur in Ahmedabad, who allegedly operated illegal cryptocurrency transactions and converted …
Gandhinagar, May 23 (IANS) A major coordinated cybercrime investigation in Gujarat has led to the arrest of 13 accused allegedly linked to a cyber fraud network involving transactions worth over Rs 631.86 crore through mule bank accounts, shell companies and multi-state operations, officials said on Saturday.The action was carried out under ‘Operation Mule Hunt 2.0’ by the Cyber Centre of Excellence following directives from senior police officials amid a rise in cybercrime cases across the …