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Ratlam prof cheating case leads MP police to int'l syndicate, fake NGOs
The Morning Standard
|January 27, 2026
Authorities say SE Asia-based groups use dummy Indian bank accounts to deposit looted sum
CYBER fraudsters operating from Southeast Asia and targeting Indians are depositing their criminal proceeds into bank accounts opened in the names of business firms/NGOs existing only on paper.
A multilayered international cybercrime racket being run from Cambodia recently used services of multiple interstate rings involved in opening and providing mule accounts to park ₹1.34 crore extorted from a retired professor and wife from Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh by keeping them under digital arrest for 28 long days.
A probe has revealed that cyber fraudsters, possibly operating from Cambodia, who posed as Mumbai crime branch sleuths, first convinced the retired professor about a SIM card issued in his name and bank account operating in his name, having been used in laundering ₹247 crore. They then extorted ₹1.34 crore from them in November-December 2025.
This story is from the January 27, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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