Fugitive and exiled Chinese business tycoon Guo Wengui was arrested on Wednesday (Local Time) in New York on the charge of financial conspiracy to defraud thousands of his online followers out of USD 1 billion, US Department of Justice's Southern District of New York said in a statement.<
According to the police, Budumuru has cheated approx 60 companies of nearly Rs 3 crore using the name of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Delhi Police signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Truecaller, a caller ID verification platform which helps the public identify verified numbers, in order to curb cybercrimes.
Two fraudsters involved in cheating people on pretext of converting or redeeming their credit card points into rupees were arrested on Tuesday by a team of Cybercrime police, South West District, said the officials.
Actor and politician Nagma Morarji has registered an FIR against unidentified persons at the Bandra Police Station in Mumbai after a cyber fraud gang duped her of about Rs 1 lakh.
The probe agency said Aranha allegedly diverted loans from the stated purposes of the loans and utilised the same for his extravagant lifestyle, causing a loss of Rs 45 crore to Cosmos Bank.
In the US, prosecutors allege that Naqvi was the mastermind behind defrauding the investors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as their government-run agency "Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)."
According to an official statement, the accused's movements were tracked to Telangana, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan before he was caught in Jalore district of the desert state.
Tabassum Qureshi, a television producer has filed an FIR alleging that she has been duped of Rs 61,900 by a fraudster posing as a hospital staff while trying to book a doctor's appointment, the Delhi police informed Today.
Hours after Assam Police busted a gang, allegedly procuring SIM Cards from different service providers fraudulently and supplying those to some Pakistani agents, Nagaon Superintendent of Police (SP) Leena Doley on Wednesday said that five people are still absconding.
Assam police have apprehended five persons for their alleged involvement in procuring SIM Cards from different service providers fraudulently and supplying those to some Pakistani agents.