AN ELDERLY lawyer from Pimpri, who is in his early 70s, became the latest victim of a ‘digital arrest’ scam, in which he lost Rs 1.8 crore to cyber criminals who posed as CBI officers and threatened to arrest him and his wife in a money laundering case.

An FIR was registered on Wednesday by the lawyer at the Cyber Crime police station of Pimpri Chinchwad police. Between September 4 and 19, the complainant was coerced into making over a dozen transfers to four mule accounts totalling Rs 1.8 crore.

Initially, he was contacted on phone by a cyber criminal who posed as a senior CBI officer. The fraudster told the complainant that a forged Aaadhar card had been used in a case of money laundering. He said the name of the complainant and his wife had been flagged in the case. The complainant wa

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