Bengaluru: Four people held for opening ‘mule’ bank accounts, supplying them to cyber criminals

Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru police has arrested four people for allegedly cajoling people to open bank accounts to be used as money mules for cybercrimes.

From the arrested, the investigators recovered over 357 bank accounts that were being rented out to cybercriminals to be used as mules to launder the proceeds of the cybercrimes. During the probe, the CCB’s cybercrime investigators also found that employees of various banks were involved in the syndicate.