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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a idiosyncratic for allegedly acting arsenic a “kingpin” successful trafficking unsuspecting Indians to cyber scam compounds operating successful Myanmar.
The accused has been identified arsenic Sunil Nellathu Ramakrishnan, alias Krish, a nonmigratory of Mumbai. During the CBI probe, helium emerged arsenic 1 of the main “facilitators” successful the trafficking network, done which victims were being illegally transported for exploitation successful the scam centres successful Southeast Asia.
The bureau kept a adjacent ticker connected his activities and arrested him soon aft helium returned to India. Searches connected his residential premises led to the seizure of integer grounds allegedly linked to quality trafficking operations successful Myanmar and Cambodia.
The scam centres are being tally peculiarly successful the KK Park country of the Myawaddy region, said the agency. The quality trafficking syndicates lure the prospective victims connected the pretext of lucrative occupation opportunities successful Thailand. They are initially taken from Delhi to Bangkok and thereafter secretly diverted to Myanmar, wherever they are forced to enactment successful the cyber scam centres.
“At these facilities, victims are coerced into engaging successful assorted cyber frauds, including ‘digital arrest’ scams, romance frauds, and cryptocurrency concern schemes targeting radical crossed the globe, including India,” it said.
The enforcement agencies person recorded testimonies revealing that the trafficked individuals are subjected to wrongful confinement, changeless intimidation, carnal and intelligence abuse, and terrible restrictions connected their movement.
In 2025, respective Indian nationals had managed to flight from those scam compounds and scope Thailand, from wherever they were repatriated to India successful March and November 2025. The CBI conducted elaborate interviews of the victims to get a wide representation of the modus operandi of the quality trafficking networks and stitchery details of the cyber fraud centres.
Based connected the inputs, the bureau is carrying retired investigations to place the cardinal operatives, including overseas nationals, who were portion of those networks.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has besides been probing aggregate cases related to quality trafficking rackets done which occupation seekers were trapped and forced into “cyber slavery”. It besides raided premises suspected to beryllium conduits crossed respective States, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Maharashtra. They had links successful countries similar the United Arab Emirates, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.
