The Cyber Crime Police of Malkajgiri Commissionerate have arrested two individuals in connection with separate, high-value online fraud operations. The enforcement crackdowns unraveled a pan-India network of illicit financial routers, exposing scams that collectively swindled victims out of ₹74.4 lakh. Police officials confirmed that both of the apprehended suspects were operating as essential mule account holders, providing active banking lines to offshore fraudsters to facilitate the rapid layering and siphoning of stolen public assets. Both men have been produced before a regional magistrate and remanded to judicial custody.
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The Corporate Job Illusion and Processing Fees
The first investigation focuses on a highly organized corporate recruitment scam that targeted a local job seeker in Hyderabad. The network managed the fraud by luring the complainant with a highly attractive, fabricated job offer for a “Business Specialist” position, promising an annual salary package of ₹12 lakh. To project full institutional credibility and eliminate early consumer hesitation, the fraudsters sent out counterfeit appointment letters and official-looking documentation.
Once the victim was emotionally invested in the employment offer, the operators demanded sequential payments under the guise of mandatory processing fees, registration charges, and background verification deposits. Believing the setup to be completely legitimate, the victim executed two distinct transaction cycles, transferring an aggregate sum of ₹3.15 lakh into a designated bank account. The operation was traced directly to Murra Harinath Reddy, a resident of Hyderabad, who was apprehended for supplying his personal bank accounts to the syndicate on a commission basis.
The CBI Impersonation and Multi-Lakh Digital Arrest
The second, significantly larger financial extraction involved a classic “digital arrest” trap that drained ₹11.25 lakh from a resident and his wife. In this operation, cybercriminals contacted the primary victim via a video call, falsely identifying themselves as senior enforcement officials representing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The impersonators aggressively accused the victim of active involvement in a massive, fabricated ₹485 crore money laundering syndicate, utilizing severe psychological intimidation and fake supreme court legal alerts to induce panic.
Under the pretext of official verification and compliance tracking ordered by judicial mandates, the fraudsters coerced the couple into sharing their confidential banking details. They subsequently forced the victim to execute multiple capital transfers, extracting ₹17.10 lakh from his personal reserves and an additional ₹54.15 lakh from his wife’s bank accounts. Technical tracking of the downstream money trail led Malkajgiri police cells to arrest Chikati Sandeep, a resident of the NTR district in Andhra Pradesh, who served as the primary mule routing the siphoned ₹71.25 lakh pool.
Refund Processing and Preventive Compliance Guidelines
Despite the complex layout of the cross-border digital accounts, the Malkajgiri Cyber Crime wing managed a substantial breakthrough for regional victims during the reporting week. Cooperating directly with commercial banking hubs and processing fast-tracked legal petitions, the state cyber cell successfully secured court-approved refund orders amounting to ₹19.51 lakh, routing the frozen funds back to their rightful owners.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crimes) cautioned the public that renting, selling, or intentionally providing bank accounts to unverified third parties is a severe statutory offense that directly fuels transnational criminal cells. Financial consumers are strongly advised to completely ignore unsolicited calls making aggressive legal accusations, as authentic law enforcement bodies never conduct criminal interrogations or demand fund asset verifications over WhatsApp or video calls. If an individual realizes they have been targeted by an active online extortion ring or detect an unauthorized transaction, they must instantly report the digital footprint to the national cybercrime helpline at 1930 to execute an immediate fund freeze.
