The bank accounts, which were used as mule accounts (around 70 per cent of them were originally held by low-income people in MP’s Vindhya and Mahakoshal regions), served as the pipeline through which more than Rs 3,000 crore was routed to various destinations.

“The funds which were rotated through these accounts were actually proceeds of cybercrime committed in various parts of the country, religious charity money, as well as money from unknown sources suspected to have been used possibly for terror funding. A large sum of money was actually routed through the mule accounts to the Middle East,” a MP police officer added.

The men operating from Nuh even operated shell companies/firms in Hyderabad and parts of Maharashtra.

These shell firms/companies were particularly used for cyber fraud and the transfer of illicit money.

“The 25-plus men who have been arrested in the case over the last 11 months have already been charge-sheeted in the court. Now we are going to zero in upon the real kingpins/masterminds of the racket in Nuh,” the officer maintained.

As per MP police sources, it’s not the first time that Nuh’s name has cropped up in a major cybercrime case. Nuh has gradually emerged as a prime cybercrime hotspot in the country.

"Years back, it was Jamtara in Jharkhand, but a sustained crackdown witnessed newer hotspots emerge in West Bengal, adjoining parts of Odisha and later some parts of western UP. But over the last couple of years, Nuh in Haryana and adjoining districts of Rajasthan have come out as the prime cyber-crime hub of India,” Madhya Pradesh police’s SP (state cyber crime cell) Pranay Nagwanshi said.