Mandya, July 25
A bank manager lost Rs 56 lakh after being "digitally arrested" by cyber fraudsters in Karnataka's Mandya district.
The police cracked the case after nine months and arrested three persons in connection with the crime.
According to police, the victim is a woman bank manager working at Bank of Baroda.
The cyber criminals, posing as officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), contacted her through a video call and accused her of being involved in money laundering and making threatening calls.
They further alleged that she was linked to a hawala racket and claimed to have records proving she had threatened others. The fraudsters convinced her that she needed to immediately transfer money from her bank accounts to avoid imminent arrest. They promised to return the amount by evening after verifying and clearing the confusion, according to police.
They warned her not to move away during the video call. After she transferred the money, it was routed into 29 different bank accounts.
Realising that she had been duped, the bank manager filed a complaint at the Cyber Economic and Narcotics (CEN) police station in Mandya.
During the investigation, police found that the accounts receiving the money were fake.