India, March 23 -- A 63-year-old retired woman from Dahisar was allegedly duped of Rs.91 lakh after cyber fraudsters posing as police officers, threatened her with arrest in a fake money-laundering case.

The North Region Cyber Cell has arrested Karan Suresh Kansaria, 49, on Saturday for allegedly aiding the fraud by providing bank accounts used to route the money. Police said part of the defrauded amount was traced to his account.

According to investigators, the victim was contacted on February 18 from a man claiming to be a police officer from Bengaluru, who claimed her bank account was linked to illegal transactions worth Rs.3 crore.

They conducted video calls, showed a staged "custody scene", and even invoked the name of encounter s...