{"id":941893,"date":"2025-06-27T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941893"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:43:33","slug":"over-8-5-lakh-mule-accounts-in-700-bank-branches-used-by-cyber-criminals-cbi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/over-8-5-lakh-mule-accounts-in-700-bank-branches-used-by-cyber-criminals-cbi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 8.5 lakh mule accounts in 700 bank branches used by cyber criminals: CBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jun 26: The CBI has detected 8.50 lakh mule bank accounts in over 700 branches nationwide which are being used by cyber criminals to launder proceeds from scams involving digital theft, impersonation, fraudulent investments, and UPI-based frauds, an enquiry by the agency has found. <\/p>\n<p>The central agency\u2019s crackdown on these mule accounts, opened using fake IDs for the limited use of siphoning victims\u2019 money, came through a coordinated search operation recently at 42 locations in Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh during which nine suspects were taken into custody, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jun 26: The CBI has detected 8.50 lakh mule bank accounts in over 700 branches nationwide which are being used by cyber criminals to launder proceeds from scams involving digital theft, impersonation, fraudulent investments, and UPI-based frauds, an enquiry by the agency has found. The central agency\u2019s crackdown on these mule accounts, opened using fake IDs for the limited use of siphoning victims\u2019 money, came through a coordinated search operation recently at 42 locations in Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh during which nine suspects were taken into custody, officials said Thursday.<\/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":[21,47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-it-2-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941893","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=941893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}