Cybercriminals defraud Odisha’s ex-IT minister of Rs 1.4 crore

An Odisha MLA and former information technology minister has lost Rs 1.4 to cyber fraud in around one-and-a-half months, a senior police officer said here on Monday.

The police arrested seven people—four from Karnataka and three from Tamil Nadu—in connection with the case.

The former minister, who lodged a police complaint in this regard in January, however, claimed that a friend of his had been using his trading account and lost the money.