By: Express News ServiceSeptember 22, 2025 10:11 PM IST 2 min readThe agency then arrested three accused — Sudhir Palande, Yash Thakur, and Shaurya Singh.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested an absconding accused in Mumbai in connection with a Rs 3.81-crore cyber fraud case.The accused, Neeraj, was produced before the special CBI court and remanded in police custody.Earlier, the agency’s Economic Offences Branch had received specific intelligence about large- scale cyber fraud and registered a case in July this year.The agency then arrested three accused — Sudhir Palande, Yash Thakur, and Shaurya Singh.According to a CBI official, during the probe, it was found that Sudhir Palande had received Rs 3.81 crore, siphoned off from victims of frauds, in a single day on July 2 and diverted it to hundreds of mule accounts opened across India.During investigation, it was revealed that Neeraj had managed Palande, who is presently in judicial custody, to open the mule account in IndusInd bank, to which Rs 3.81 crore was transferred in a single day.Neeraj further facilitated Palande’s travel from Mumbai to Nagpur for operating this mule account and managing the transfer of illicit funds, the agency said in a release.The CBI managed to nab the accused based on technical surveillance, local intelligence and physical intelligence.The preliminary chargesheet has already been filed and three accused persons are currently in judicial custody.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:CBI