India Trains Over One Thousand Officers to Tackle Crypto Linked Crime

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• Digital South completed two major training batches for Tamil Nadu’s Economic Offence Wing and state Cyber Teams.
• Officers learned crypto tracing methods, exchange analysis, fund flow tracking, and digital fraud patterns.
• With 1,230 officers trained to date, the effort signals India’s push to strengthen its digital security capacity.

Blockchain Education Trust, Digital South has been steadily building a presence within India’s law enforcement circles, and the past week offered a clearer look at how fast that effort is growing.

The organisation, led by founder Sudhakar Lakshmanaraja, completed two separate training programs for officers in Tamil Nadu, each focused on the growing challenges around crypto-related crime, financial fraud, and digital investigations.

The first program marked the 13th batch of its Agencies Capacity Building Training. It was held at the Tamil Nadu Police Academy for officers from the State Economic Offence Wing. The sessions were designed to give investigators a practical understanding of the tools and behaviours shaping the crypto landscape today. Officers were introduced to methods for tracing transactions, analysing movement across wallets, examining fund flows, and examining the operations of both centralised and decentralised exchanges.

The program also spent time on the mechanics of multi-level marketing scams, fraud networks, and new patterns seen in cyber financial crime.

A few days later, Digital South completed another milestone with the 14th Cyber Team batch. This round brought in 62 officers, including senior ranks such as additional deputy superintendents and deputy superintendents from across the state.

With this batch, the organisation says it has now trained 1230 officials in India. The focus remained similar, with a stronger push on understanding digital arrests, money laundering trails, and the misuse of crypto and blockchain tools in new-age scams.

According to Sudhakar, the broader intention is not only to improve investigative capacity but also to prepare India for a future where digital forensics and financial intelligence are inseparable. He believes the country has the talent and the technical base to lead globally in this domain, provided that policy clarity and institutional support keep pace.

Part of the recent training was delivered by Lalith Krishnan Haribabu, the organisation’s director of growth and partnerships. His sessions focused on practical crypto asset tracing and the structure of emerging scams, which have become more complex and much harder to follow without specialised tools.

Any country that wants to protect its digital economy needs officers who understand the technology at a deeper level. And Digital South’s work is an attempt to bridge that gap, one batch at a time.

Editorial Note: This news article has been written with assistance from AI. Edited & fact-checked by the Editorial Team.

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