Cyberabad police arrested three men in Madhya Pradesh this week for renting the bank accounts that swallowed a woman's savings. The app that showed her a fortune was a picture of a fortune. The picture was the whole crime.
A Hyderabad fitness trainer answered an Instagram message about a luxury goods business and ended up ₹7.5 lakh lighter. Five alleged QNET representatives were arrested at a company event in Goa on July 18, 2026. The machinery is older than the arrests.
A fake corporate office in Varanasi processed ₹4 crore in a year by selling jobs that did not exist to youths who could not afford to be wrong. What they got instead was a bar of soap and a quota of three cousins.
A Mandi village teacher put her road-compensation money into a coin called Korvio. The man who sold it to her bought a flight to Dubai. The Enforcement Directorate is still tracing the wires.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Karuturi Venkateshwara Rao on June 2 in a ₹899 crore ($108M USD) bank fraud case that allegedly ran for fifteen years inside the books of a Bengaluru cable company. The machine was not the cable. It was the paperwork.
By Mark Tell · Jun 8
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