NewzVille Desk
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out searches at nearly 40 locations across Delhi NCR, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kerala and West Bengal in connection with a transnational cyber-enabled digital arrest fraud. CBI conducted the searches as part of its ongoing Operation Chakra V.
During the operation, CBI has unearthed an extensive domestic facilitation network found involved in supplying mule bank accounts and enabling parallel hawala channels for layering and movement of proceeds of crime.
It was revealed that the perpetrators of the digital arrest frauds were carrying out their operations from foreign locations, including Cambodia.
The Agency said it had registered a comprehensive FIR based on the complaints received from nine different victims of digital arrest.
CBI then conducted a detailed investigation by focusing on both mule accounts and telecommunication channels used to approach the victim.
This led to the identification of nearly 40 individuals who were part of the organised cybercrime network perpetrating the digital arrest fraud.
