: Friday, January 02, 2026 5:29 PM
Jalandhar . The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Jalandhar Zonal Office conducted a search operation on December 31, 2025 at the locations of Arpit Rathore, who was later arrested during the search in connection with a money laundering investigation. This matter S. P. Oswal and under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. During the search, incriminating records, digital devices and unaccounted cash worth Rs 14 lakh were recovered and seized. ED initiated investigation on the basis of FIR registered by Cyber Crime Police Station, Ludhiana under BNSS, 2023. Nine additional FIRs related to cyber crime or digital arrest related to the same group were also included in the investigation.
ED investigation revealed that S. During the digital arrest of P. Oswal, fraudsters impersonating officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation extorted Rs 7 crore from him. The same group defrauded others to the tune of Rs 1.73 crore through digital arrest and cyber fraud scams.
Investigation revealed that the funds were sent through multiple Mule accounts operated by accused Rumi Kalita and Arpit Rathore. Rumi Kalita from Guwahati and Arpit Rathore from Kanpur are involved in these activities. It was also revealed that Rumi Kalita along with Atanu Chaudhary used the bank accounts of their company M/s Frozenman Warehousing and Logistics and another company Riglo Ventures Pvt Ltd to launder the illegal earnings.
Funds recovered from nine digital arrest cases were deposited into the accounts of Frozenman Warehousing and Logistics, while funds from two cases were deposited into the accounts of Riglo Ventures Private Limited. These amounts were later transferred to more than 200 Mule bank accounts, allowing the earnings to be diverted. These transactions were facilitated by Arpit Rathore, who instructed Rumi Kalita to transfer the funds after the victims deposited them.
Investigation also found that accused Arpit Rathore not only informed S.P. Played a vital role in the digital arrest of Oswal, but also in many other cyber crimes and frauds targeting innocent people. Arpit Rathore was in touch with foreign associates to commit these crimes, by providing Mule accounts to foreign nationals and helping in transfer of illegal earnings to foreign jurisdictions. In return, these foreign nationals paid money to Arpit Rathore and obtained details of mule accounts to help repatriate cyber crime profits abroad.
Furthermore, it was also revealed that Arpit Rathore had received his share of the criminal earnings in the form of USDT cryptocurrency and Indian Rupees.
Earlier, a search was conducted in this case on December 22 and the accused Rumi Kalita was arrested on December 23 and is currently in ED custody. After the arrest, accused Arpit Rathore was produced before the ACJM, Kanpur, who granted two days’ transit remand and thereafter he was produced before the Special Court in Jalandhar, which remanded the accused to ED custody for five days till January 5.
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