Hyderabad, March 12 -- Cyber Crime Police Station (CCPS), Hyderabad registered 78 FIRs in February and arrested 117 suspects from 16 states during a special drive 'Operation Octopus', police said.
A police statement on Thursday said the arrests were made in connection with 74 cybercrime cases. The detected cases included 63 trading and investment frauds, six digital arrest frauds, four OTP frauds and one social media-related fraud. Police also managed to refund Rs 34.76 lakh to victims.
Investigations revealed that the arrested individuals were involved in 1,081 cybercrime cases across India and their bank accounts had transactions amounting to nearly Rs 139 crore.
During the operations, police seized cash worth Rs 36 lakh, 221 mobile ph...