{"id":987998,"date":"2026-01-27T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987998"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:53:37","slug":"southeast-asian-cybercrime-syndicates-parking-digital-arrest-money-in-bogus-bank-accounts-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/southeast-asian-cybercrime-syndicates-parking-digital-arrest-money-in-bogus-bank-accounts-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian cybercrime syndicates parking \u2018digital arrest\u2019 money in bogus bank accounts in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: Bank accounts opened in the names of business firms\/NGOs existing only on paper or in the names of individuals projecting as officials of bogus firms are being used to park proceeds of cybercrimes committed against Indians by gangs operating from Southeast Asia. <\/p>\n<p>A multi-layered international cybercrime racket being run from Cambodia recently used the services of multiple inter-state rings involved in opening and providing mule accounts to park Rs 1.34 crore extorted from a retired professor and wife from Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, by placing them under digital arrest for 28 long days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: Bank accounts opened in the names of business firms\/NGOs existing only on paper or in the names of individuals projecting as officials of bogus firms are being used to park proceeds of cybercrimes committed against Indians by gangs operating from Southeast Asia. A multi-layered international cybercrime racket being run from Cambodia recently used the services of multiple inter-state rings involved in opening and providing mule accounts to park Rs 1.34 crore extorted from a retired professor and wife from Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, by placing them under digital arrest for 28 long days.<\/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-987998","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\/987998","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=987998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}