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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) arrested 2 slope officials allegedly progressive successful the opening of mule accounts successful conspiracy with organised cybercriminals. The accounts were aboriginal utilized to transportation funds generated done cyber frauds.
The accused person been identified arsenic Shalini Sinha, Assistant Manager successful Canara Bank, and Abhishek Kumar, Business Development Associate successful Axis Bank. Both were posted successful Patna.
While the archetypal accused was held successful Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, the 2nd was picked up from Bettiah successful Bihar.
During investigations into the mule accounts opened for committing cybercrimes, and based connected the investigation of integer devices, the bureau said it has gathered capable grounds against them.
“These 2 bankers person played progressive roles successful opening and operationalising the mule accounts and further guiding the cyber fraudsters successful wealth mule transactions. Evidence has besides been gathered to beryllium that these bankers person received quid pro quo for assisting the cyber fraudsters arsenic portion of the conspiracy. The arrested accused person besides advised the cybercrime fraudsters however to debar the strategy generated reddish flags,” the CBI said.
The CBI had earlier conducted searches astatine 61 locations crossed the state and arrested 13 accused successful transportation with the opening and cognition of mule accounts, and precocious filed complaint sheets against them for assorted offences.
“The relation of different slope officials who are connected with the opening and operationalising of mule accounts is nether investigation,” it added.
