Smarak Swain

The Scammer's Trail (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dr Gandhi Kumar, a beloved paediatrician in a quiet Delhi neighbourhood, lives a life of comfortable monotony. And then one morning, the Enforcement Directorate storms into his house and names him the prime suspect in a massive ransomware attack on the Government of India. Investigators have proof that account he owns has been used to move crores in stolen bitcoins. His sister, Gamini, a firebrand with unrelenting resolve, is convinced that the Null Cyphers, an elusive cybercrime syndicate, has stolen her brother's identity to create mule accounts. Determined to clear his name, she teams up with Brian Leatherman, the sharp-witted FBI attaché in the US embassy, and cybercrime sleuths from the I4C, the nodal agency that deals with cybercrime in India, to chase digital shadows through the alleys of darknet and shady crypto exchanges. But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous it becomes. Explosive and disturbingly plausible, The Scammer's Trail is a razor-sharp legal-cyber thriller that pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of digital crime and immoral cops, and the high price of truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789361310089
• Artikelnr.: 74849966

Autorenporträt

Smarak Swain is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and presently works as Deputy Secretary in Finance Ministry. A graduate in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, he completed his master's in Taxation and Business Laws from NALSAR University, Hyderabad. He has over ten years of experience in the fields of income tax scrutiny, transfer pricing audits and financial crime investigations.

Swain is the author of Tangible Guide to Intangibles, an academic work on accounting, valuation and taxation of intangible assets, and Loophole Games, an exhaustive survey of tax avoidance techniques used by corporates. He frequently writes articles and papers on the interplay of finance and technology law. His articles have been published in Nikkei Asian Review, The Economic Times, The Mint, Asia Times, The Hindu BusinessLine and BloombergQuint.