Bhubaneswar: Cybercriminals siphoned off more than Rs 222 crore from 3,486 people in Odisha in just 16 months, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the state Assembly on Monday.

In a written reply to a question from Congress MLA Rama Chandra Kadam, the CM stated that cybercriminals duped people of Rs 2,220,978,647 (Rs 222.09 crore) between August 2023 and November 2024. Of this amount, only Rs 61.36 lakh could be refunded to victims, while Rs 6.74 crore was frozen in the fraudsters’ accounts. ADVERTISEMENT

Total of 69 victims were targeted through the increasingly common “digital arrest” scam.

Majhi, who holds the Home portfolio, further stated that 727 persons involved in cyber fraud cases were arrested, and charge-sheets filed in 104 cases.

Police have attributed the low recov

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