{"id":1017049,"date":"2026-06-26T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017049"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:48:38","slug":"12-held-for-robbing-man-of-rs-17-lakh-in-fake-crypto-deal-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/12-held-for-robbing-man-of-rs-17-lakh-in-fake-crypto-deal-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"12 held for robbing man of Rs 17 lakh in fake crypto deal in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Sanjaynagar police have arrested 12 people for allegedly robbing a man of Rs 17.64 lakh after luring him with the promise of converting the money into USDT cryptocurrency. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the complainant, a resident of Devinagar in Kodigehalli, was planning to open a caf\u00e9 on the Sira Highway and was searching online for kitchen tiles, cutlery and other equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Sanjaynagar police have arrested 12 people for allegedly robbing a man of Rs 17.64 lakh after luring him with the promise of converting the money into USDT cryptocurrency. According to police, the complainant, a resident of Devinagar in Kodigehalli, was planning to open a caf\u00e9 on the Sira Highway and was searching online for kitchen tiles, cutlery and other equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017052,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017049\/revisions\/1017052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}