PANJI, Aug 28: The Enforcement Directorate arrested three more people as part of its investigation in a money laundering case linked to a pan-India cyber fraud case involving transactions worth Rs 30,000 crore, sources said on Friday.
With this, the total arrests made in the case by the Central agency's Panaji office have risen to five. Two persons from Mumbai were arrested earlier this week.
According to sources, Bhushan Suryakant Moye, Vilas Narayan Pawar and Shailesh Dagdu were taken into custody on Thursday under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. A special court in Panaji has sent them to ED custody till September 1.
On August 23, the ED arrested Fahim Moin Hussain Sayed and Naim Mueen Sayyed, who remain in its custody.
In a statement, the agency said its probe began after the Goa Police registered an FIR on June 9, 2025. The case pertained to a Goa-based woman, who was allegedly placed under digital arrest by cyber fraudsters and duped into transferring Rs 2.60 crore to some "Secret Supervision Accounts" between May 21 and June 2, 2025.
Digital arrest is a cybercrime in which fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials threaten people through audio or video calls, virtually holding them hostage and pressuring them into transferring money online. |
