Earlier this year my SBI bank account was frozen because I did 3 P2P transactions of 2 lakhs each. The guy asked me if he can do third-party transfer and I didn't know about any of these scams back in Jan and said fine. He sent those funds from some Hotel/Restaurant account. Which I can see on bank statement. Never thought of it.

Then in March, my bank account was frozen, bank manager called and gave some docs saying someone in Bihar lost 2 crores someone in MP lost 30 lakhs and 6 lakhs of those funds came to my account. 2 lakhs Layer 2. 4 lakhs Layer 4. Complaint of victim who lost those funds and how they lost it and tons of bank tx from scammer account how they moved those funds. Bihar, MP cyber cell asking bank and bank hq asking local bank manager to freeze my whole account mails. And some court proceedings etc. Probably 50 pages total.

I am from Telangana and I sent all these docs to my lawyer friends and they said, it's third-party in your Binance P2P and victims complaints are legit. So, either you have to visit those police stations and fight in those states courts or give up those funds. Nothing much you can do.

I am reeling from that and a week or so later I got call from local district headquarters cyber cell and asked me about my occupation and asked me to visit them and provide information about my bank and my transactions how I got those funds and such so they can clear my name.

I went and provided everything on top of 10k bribe to clear my name from this huge 2.3 crores scam. From the docs I got from bank manager, I can see like 30 pages of transactions where the funds went. 3 transactions end up in my account. 100s more in random accounts in random banks all over country. Not even sure why I have to prove my innocence here. But hey, it's just local cyber cell guys just want some bribes.

Then somehow randomly, hold on my account was removed and 2 lakhs from MP case became free. I moved all my funds 2 from this case and 2 more of my other funds stuck because of account freeze to another bank acc and withdrawn. 4 lakhs still stuck. Met bank manager and he said it happened randomly we don't know. They probably cleared you from case you are free to take those but 4 lakhs still stuck.

In mid July bank manager got court order to transfer 4 lakhs which were frozen from my acc to victim in Bihar it seems. He said, I have to visit courts and stop this and send him update asap or he will have to transfer as per ruling. 2 of my lawyers said it's lost cause, victim probably bribed heavily local police/cyber cell/courts that's why they moved so fast in freezing and court order and all. You have to spend weeks in Bihar talking to police, filing court cases and all and probably bribe and spend around 2 lakhs (including travel and stay) with 50/50 chances of getting back my 4 lakhs (given the original victim also legit and I did third-party p2p) and be away from my work for weeks. So I gave up on that idea.

Last week bank manager did the transfer and it's done. Is there anything I should have done differently?