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Kadapa Police person busted a cyber fraud pack with the apprehension of 9 persons who duped an aged aged idiosyncratic of much than ₹72 lakh successful the sanction of integer arrest.
Superintendent of Police Shelke Nachiketh Viswanath said the Badvel constabulary person successfully busted the highly organised integer apprehension cyber fraud syndicate, operating done an extended inter-State mule relationship empire and crypto-laundering infrastructure.
According to the SP, the lawsuit was registered connected the ailment of a 70-year-old advocator P.V.N. Prasad of Badvel, who was targeted and placed nether a fabricated integer apprehension by cyber offenders impersonating arsenic constabulary and cardinal investigating bureau officials. “Through intelligence intimidation, forged documents, mendacious transgression narratives and continuous integer surveillance, the syndicate extorted ₹72.68 lakh from the unfortunate betwixt September 2025 to December 2025,” the SP said.
Investigation revealed that the offence was executed adopting high-level impersonation of constabulary and Central enforcement agencies, instauration of fearfulness psychosis involving NBWs, apprehension and brushwood threats, enforced integer apprehension by continuous WhatsApp video monitoring, routing of extorted funds done a multi-layered mule relationship chain, and laundering of proceeds done cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets, the SP said.
Police conducted intensive cyber forensics, banking quality and telecom analysis, which led to the recognition and dismantling of the fiscal backbone of the syndicate. Following this, the constabulary arrested 9 accused astatine Hanuman Circle connected Mydukuru –Kadapa Main Road.
Police recovered that the racket was controlled by a cardinal kingpin structure, supported by handlers, recruiters, mule relationship aggregators and corporate-front facilitators. The extorted wealth was systematically routed done assorted banks. A fiscal ecosystem exceeding ₹22 crore linked to cardinal mule operators was identified and frozen, efficaciously crippling the syndicate’s operational capacity. The syndicate adopted crypto-conversion arsenic a deliberate strategy to anonymise, fragment and conceal proceeds of crime.
The arrested are Haddhad Koya, premier coordinator, mule relationship aggregator and recipient of ₹10 lakh of the defrauded amount; Sahad Thaikandiyil, halfway operator, web handler and impersonation strategist; Gibson Gilbert, firm mule relationship holder; Prajit C.P., mule relationship bearer and liaison betwixt relationship holders and web operators; Shajil Kanayi, mule relationship arranger and papers handler (all belonging to Kerala); Annapureddy Pothuraju, a mule relationship holder; Bhupathi Prashanth, aggregate slope relationship supplier and inter-State mule recruiter; Mallel Dinesh, a mule relationship holder and Garla Sudheer (all from Andhra Pradesh), relation and facilitator of mule accounts utilized for fraud.
Police seized ₹5.50 lakh cash, 14 smartphones and keypad phones, aggregate SIM cards, debit and recognition cards, cheque books, ATM cards, net-banking credentials and a car from them.
Police said probe is underway to way absconding kingpins, inter-State handlers and planetary operators, travel the residual wealth way and retrieve proceeds of crime, place further victims crossed aggregate States and initiate attachment and forfeiture proceedings arsenic per law.
