The accused was identified as Dwibendu Moharana, who was intercepted at Bhubaneswar airport on his return to India on October 30, 2025
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a key cybercrime accused, who was part of a syndicate that targeted Japanese citizens through “tech support scams”. The action has been taken as part of the ongoing ‘Operation Chakra-V’ against cybercriminals.
The agency has identified the accused as Dwibendu Moharana, who was intercepted at Bhubaneswar airport on his return to India on Thursday (October 30, 2025).
“Following coordinated searches conducted on May 28, 2025, at 19 locations across Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, which led to the arrest of six operatives, Moharana had absconded from Bhubaneswar to the United Arab Emirates on May 29, 2025, immediately after his call centre at Voip Connect Private Limited, Noida, was uncovered,” the agency said on Saturday.
Its investigations revealed that Mr. Moharana operated the illegal call centre that was involved in sophisticated social engineering and deception, according to the agency. His associates allegedly impersonated support personnel from multinational companies, and made their Japanese victims pay up under false pretences, the agency said.
Following his arrest, Mr. Moharana was brought to Delhi on a transit warrant and produced before a special court that remanded him to CBI custody for three days.
The agency has so far arrested seven individuals in the case, and filed chargesheets against all of them. They are currently under judicial custody. “The operation, carried out in close cooperation with the National Police Agency of Japan and Microsoft Corporation, has significantly disrupted the syndicate’s operations,” the CBI said.
The searches carried out on May 28 had resulted in the arrest of six persons, and the dismantling of two illegal call centres engaged in a sophisticated transnational tech support scam targeting Japanese citizens.
Among the arrested persons are Ashu Singh from Delhi; Kapil Ghakhar from Panipat; Rohit Maurya from Ayodhya; and Shubham Jaiswal, Vivek Raj, and Adarsh Kumar from Varanasi.
Published – November 01, 2025 06:23 pm IST
