Overview
- Dwibendu Moharana was intercepted at Bhubaneswar airport on October 30 and taken to Delhi on a transit warrant.
- Investigators allege he ran Noida‑based Voip Connect Pvt Ltd, where callers posed as multinational tech support to coerce Japanese victims into payments.
- A special court remanded him to three days of CBI custody for interrogation, with the agency reporting seven arrests to date and chargesheets filed.
- The operation was conducted with cooperation from Japan’s National Police Agency and Microsoft, which the CBI says has significantly disrupted the syndicate.
- The case follows May 28 raids at 19 sites and an October 8 sweep at about 40 locations, with probes into mule accounts and telecom channels identifying roughly 40 linked individuals.