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A full of ₹25.97 crore was recovered done Cyber Crime Police Stations of the Greater Chennai City, and returned to the complainants who mislaid wealth successful cyber frauds successful 2025. Last December alone, ₹1.04 crore was recovered and returned to the victims.
In December 2025, the Central Crime Branch’s Cyber Crime Police Station received 65 complaints. Of these, 36 were taken up for inquiry, and ₹47.42 lakh was recovered.
Similarly, the North Zone Cyber Crime Police Station received 21 complaints, and recovered ₹19 lakh successful 15 cases. The West Zone recovered ₹5.47 lakh successful 5 cases, the South Zone ₹19.81 lakh successful 18 cases, and the East Zone ₹13.12 lakh successful 14 cases.
Of the 192 complaints received successful total, enactment was taken connected 88, and ₹1,04,87,793 was recovered and handed implicit to the complainants. Further, from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, a full of ₹25.97 crore was recovered and returned to the rightful owners, the constabulary said.
A elder constabulary serviceman said that successful cybercrime-related cases, they led the efforts to place the applicable contacts of cybercriminals — who cheat the nationalist and siphon disconnected wealth done online platforms and societal media — frost slope accounts, retrieve mislaid amounts, and recognition them backmost to the victims’ slope accounts. In cases wherever victims were deceived into transferring wealth to different slope accounts, the acrophobic accounts person been frozen, and the wealth recovered done owed ineligible and tribunal procedures.
The Greater Chennai City has 4 Cyber Crime Police Stations functioning nether the supervision of Joint Commissioners of Police successful East, West, South, and North Zones, successful summation to the Central Crime Branch. Besides, each Cyber Crime Cell operates nether the Deputy Commissioner of Police successful each constabulary districts.
