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…
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Ahmedabad/Surat, July 3 (IANS) Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence has arrested four people from Ahmedabad and Surat in separate investigations into mule bank accounts used for cyber fraud and the Bhavnagar District Co-operative Bank hacking case, uncovering a cybercrime network across the country.The action forms part of “Operation Mule Hunt 2.0”, under which the Cyber Centre of Excellence of CID Crime said it has arrested 55 accused over the past month.According to police, verification…
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…
Surat, June 3 (IANS) The Surat City Police have arrested 77 people across several states and registered 58 cyber fraud cases after a three-day operation targeting mule account networks used to move and conceal proceeds from online scams, uncovering fraud transactions worth Rs 23.85 crore and freezing more than Rs 1.04 crore linked to the accounts under investigation. The action was carried out under “Operation Mule Hunt 2.0”, a special drive conducted from May 31 to June 2 under the direct s…
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…
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, April 22 (IANS) More than Rs 622 crore linked to cyber fraud has been detected and 40 people arrested in the past month under Operation Mule Hunt 2.0, the Cyber Centre of Excellence of Gujarat’s CID Crime said on Wednesday, outlining the scale of a network that used mule bank accounts to move illicit funds. Police said the operation also identified 1,039 cyber fraud complaints and exposed a wider network involving over Rs 288 crore.According to the officials, the accused opene…