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Hyderabad Expands iBomma Case With Foreigners Act as Mirror Sites Reappear

Foreigners Act charges have triggered a deeper inquiry into international money trails.

Overview

  • Police continue daily custodial questioning of Immadi Ravi, seizing hard drives with about 21,000 films while probing alleged harvesting of data from roughly 50 lakh users and earnings reported around ₹20 crore.
  • Investigators say Ravi holds Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship, leading to the addition of Foreigners Act sections to the case.
  • Roughly ₹3.5 crore in bank accounts has been frozen as teams track transfers through NRI channels, crypto wallets and properties in India and overseas.
  • Multiple mirror platforms such as iBomma-1, MovieRules and TamilMV remain active, with cybercrime units working to identify and block dozens of domains.
  • A separate inquiry is underway after iBomma links appeared on a nationalised bank’s loan portal, with police examining a possible server compromise and the role of middlemen tied to fake IDs.