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…
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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 …
Gandhinagar, May 19 (IANS) The Cyber Centre of Excellence (CCoE) of Gujarat CID Crime has arrested nine individuals and uncovered an international cryptocurrency syndicate allegedly involved in terror financing, dark web narcotics trafficking, cyber fraud, hawala transactions, and money laundering, with financial transactions worth more than Rs 226 crore traced during the investigation. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, SP Rajdeepsinh Zala said the investigation exposed a network handlin…
Gandhinagar, May 5 (IANS) An interstate cyber crime racket involving fraud of over Rs 53 crore and linked to 132 complaints across the country has been busted, with 10 accused arrested from Anand and Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s Cyber Centre of Excellence (CID Crime) said on Tuesday.Acting on instructions to intensify action against rising cyber offences from DGP K.L.N. Rao, a team was constituted under the supervision of Superintendents of Police Dr Rajdeepsinh Zala, Sanjay Keshwala and Vivek Bheda.O…
Gandhinagar/Vadodara, April 18 (IANS) A cyber fraud network linked to transactions worth more than Rs 210 crore has been uncovered, with six individuals arrested in a coordinated operation by the Cyber Centre of Excellence of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Crime in Gujarat, officials said on Saturday. The arrests were made after a targeted raid in Vadodara based on specific intelligence, as part of intensified efforts to tackle rising cyber crime.According to officials, the accused oper…
Gandhinagar, March 5 (IANS) The Cyber Centre of Excellence of the Gujarat Police has arrested two men accused of recruiting individuals and sending them abroad to work in cyber fraud operations linked to international cyber slavery networks, officials said on Thursday.The accused have been identified as Kaushik Pethani from Amreli and Dhruv Dobariya from Surat. The arrests were made following specific intelligence inputs received by the police.According to investigators, the two allegedly target…