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₹2-Cr Robbery 'Victim' Turns Out Mastermind
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|July 23, 2025
Bizman, 14 others held for conning 2 men with crypto investment deal
In a dramatic twist to the Rs 2 crore robbery case reported in Vidyaranyapura last month, investigators have uncovered that the complainant himself orchestrated the entire heist.
The police have arrested 15 people, including the complainant, identified as Shri Harsha, for cheating two businessmen under the guise of converting their cash into the cryptocurrency USDT (Tether). Four more suspects remain at large.
The arrested have been identified as Harsha, a businessman, Rakshith M, Chandrashekhar, Benjamin Harsha, Syed Akhib, Mohammed Suhail, Salman Khan, Muheeb S, Mohsin Khan, Salman Khan (second accused with same name), Syed Amjad, Syed Afreed, Syed Wasim, Mohammed Ateeg, Sandeep, Sheikh Sadu, Rakesh and Mohammed Sabeer are absconding.
This story is from the July 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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