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The Telangana constabulary connected Wednesday launched “Operation Crackdown”, a peculiar Statewide thrust aimed astatine dismantling organised cybercrime networks and curbing fiscal fraud.
The cognition volition beryllium conducted successful phases implicit the coming months by the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) successful coordination with territory constabulary units and commissionerates.
The archetypal signifier was launched connected Wednesday crossed 16 districts and units, targeting mule slope accounts utilized to way proceeds of cyber fraud. Data investigation by TGCSB revealed 4,775 mule accounts were operated successful the State during 2025. Of these, 1,888 suspected mule accounts dispersed crossed 137 slope branches successful 16 districts were taken up for verification. These accounts are linked to 9,431 transgression connections nationwide, including 782 wrong Telangana.
A full of 137 constabulary teams comprising 512 unit carried retired simultaneous inspections astatine 137 slope branches, collecting KYC documents and scrutinising relationship details. Preliminary findings bespeak that respective branches big aggregate mule accounts, successful immoderate instances moving into hundreds, raising suspicion of imaginable collusion by slope unit and the engagement of organised cause networks.
In 1 instance, a azygous relationship operating from Sultan Bazaar successful Hyderabad was recovered linked to 496 complaints crossed aggregate jurisdictions. In Suryapet district, 4 slope branches were recovered to person 298 accounts linked to cybercrime cases. Police said cases would beryllium registered wherever necessary.
Officials besides observed that definite smaller banks lacking autarkic RTGS facilities were routing transactions done nationalist banks, with inadequate verification of relationship holders, which is being exploited by cybercriminals.
The constabulary said the cognition would proceed with intensified verification, investigation of fiscal trails, profiling of relationship holders and strict ineligible enactment against those recovered involved.
