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Boston - An Indian investment banker has been convicted by a US federal jury on charges of extortion and threatening a New York state comptroller official to reveal an extramarital affair if a multi-million dollar pension contract was not awarded in his favour - in short, blackmail. Full Article

Everyone who works on a computer must be familiar with the term “Cyber Crime”. Initially, when man invented computer and then the technology for communicating between computers was evolved, he would have never thought that the cyber space he is creating could be flooded with any crime i.e. cyber crime. But now almost all of us might have heard the term computer crime, cyber crime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime which is nothing but an activity done with a.. Full Article

Mumbai: Jayesh Sanghoi, the chartered accountant of Jaya Chedda—ex-wife of slain matka king Suresh Bhagat—has approached the Mulund metropolitan magistrate, seeking an investigation into his alleged extortion by Suresh’s brother Vinod. Full Article

Two Mumbai policemen and a retired income tax official, who attempted to extort money from a jeweller at Navsari near Surat in Gujarat, were caught in the act by residents on Thursday . The three were handed over to the Navsari police, who arrested them for forgery , cheating and extortion. Full Article