Ahmedabad: The city cybercrime police on Saturday uncovered an illegal call centre allegedly used to defraud Canadian citizens and arrested four persons involved in the racket. According to a complaint lodged by PSI Y. V. Solanki of the Cybercrime police station, officers received late-night inputs about a group operating a fake call centre from a flat located on New CG Road in Chandkheda. Acting on the tip-off, a police team raided the flat in Sopan Heights. Officials said the team first cont...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government informed the State Assembly that a total of 2.85 lakh bank accounts of citizens have been unfrozen in the last two years with the help of the cyber helpline, while an online portal has also been created to allow people to apply for unfreezing their accounts from anywhere. The information was provided by Deputy Chief Minister (Home) Harsh Sanghavi in the Assembly in reply to a question during the ongoing Budget Session of the Assembly. According to the re...Read More

Ahmedabad: A case of alleged honey-trapping and extortion has been uncovered in the city, in which a builder was reportedly targeted through the threat of releasing compromising videos to extract ₹10 crore. The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested a woman and a local newspaper editor in connection with the case, while a third accused, said to have masterminded the plot, is still at large. Police said the woman, identified as Sunita alias Annie Rajput, allegedly lured the builder into a r...Read More

Junagadh: A Division police have uncovered a mule account racket linked to cyber fraud transactions worth over Rs 9.43 crore, with the money ultimately being converted into cryptocurrency and routed to Dubai. Police have registered a case against 20 persons and launched a statewide investigation, arresting nine accused so far. According to police, three complaints filed on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal flagged suspicious transactions in the current account of Prime Trading Group. Dur...Read More

Jamnagar: Former Gujarat Agriculture Minister and Jamnagar Rural MLA Raghavji Patel has filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police, alleging an attempt to defame him through doctored photos and videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to the FIR, the offence has been registered under Sections 336(2), 336(4), 352 and 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Section 66(c) of the Information Technology Act. The complaint states that the unknown holder of a Fa...Read More

Ahmedabad: The CID (Crime) Cyber Excellence Centre has arrested six more individuals for allegedly supplying at least 270 mule bank accounts to a Dubai-based cybercrime syndicate, enabling it to channel proceeds of nationwide cyber frauds. Officials said the group and its associates were linked to 1,549 cybercrime cases reported across India in the past year, with nearly ₹804 crore routed through these accounts. The accused, Kamlesh Sen, Sagar Sen, Sazeb Kherani, Sohil Vadhwania, Amin Bh...Read More

Surat: Cybercrime police have arrested Jatin Thakkar (27) of Ahmedabad and Deep Thakkar (24) of Surat at Mumbai airport in connection with an Rs 800 crore cyberfraud case. The duo was caught after arriving from Thailand, following a Look-Out Circular (LOC) issued against them. The case came to light two months ago, when police raided a premise in Katargam and arrested five individuals namely Meet Shah, Yash Shinde, Rishikesh Sapkal, Nilesh Solanki, and Paresh Modi, after uncovering cyberfraud t...Read More

Ahmedabad: A major breakthrough has been made in a multi-state cyber fraud case after Ahmedabad Cyber Crime arrested Bhavnagar district NSUI president Arshmaan Khan Zoravar Khan Shuk (Baluch), who allegedly supplied bank accounts to an international cybercrime syndicate and earned heavy commissions through hawala transactions. The arrest came during the investigation of a complaint in which an Ahmedabad resident was duped of ₹50.50 lakh after being added to a fake WhatsApp investment group tit...Read More

Vadodara: The Cyber Centre of Excellence of the Gujarat Police on Tuesday arrested a Vadodara-based woman for her involvement in the massive cyber slavery racket busted earlier. With her arrest, the total number of accused held in this case has now risen to at least six, including the alleged kingpin, Neel Purohit. According to the CID, the accused, Payal Chauhan, worked as a sub-agent and targeted youths from Gujarat through social media, offering lucrative job opportunities abroad. Instead, t...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Cyber Center of Excellence has arrested international cyber-crime operative Nilesh (Neel) Purohit, described by senior officials as the alleged mastermind of a large cyber-slavery and human-trafficking network spread across multiple Asian countries. Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghvi said the Cyber Center has “exposed a massive international network involved in human trafficking and cyber fraud,” adding that Purohit handled recruitment, trafficking routes, financial...Read More