{"id":1027370,"date":"2026-08-08T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027370"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:21:00","slug":"ex-serviceman-engineer-held-in-rs-21-05-crore-crypto-investment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/ex-serviceman-engineer-held-in-rs-21-05-crore-crypto-investment-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-serviceman, engineer held in Rs 21.05 crore crypto investment scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Cyber Police have arrested an ex-serviceman-turned-district panchayat member and a mechanical engineer for allegedly facilitating a Rs 21.05-crore cyber fraud in which a 70-year-old chartered accountant from Gwalior was duped through a cryptocurrency investment scam. <\/p>\n<p>The arrests mark a significant breakthrough in what investigators describe as one of the largest &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; cyber frauds reported in Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Cyber Police have arrested an ex-serviceman-turned-district panchayat member and a mechanical engineer for allegedly facilitating a Rs 21.05-crore cyber fraud in which a 70-year-old chartered accountant from Gwalior was duped through a cryptocurrency investment scam. The arrests mark a significant breakthrough in what investigators describe as one of the largest &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; cyber frauds reported in Madhya Pradesh.<\/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-1027370","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\/1027370","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=1027370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027405,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027370\/revisions\/1027405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}