Imagine you’re a low-wage worker in India who is offered a day’s employment as an extra in a Bollywood film. Your role? To go to a cash point and withdraw some money.
In 2018, several men in Maharashtra state thought they were accepting a bit-part in a movie – but in fact they were being tricked into being money mules, collecting cash in an ambitious bank heist.
The raid took place over a weekend in August 2018, and centred on Cosmos Co-operative bank, which has its headquarters in Pune.
On a quiet Saturday afternoon, staff in the bank’s head office suddenly received a string of alarming messages.
