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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested 2 persons successful transportation with a quality trafficking web that lured Indian nationals to scam compounds operating successful Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar and Cambodia, connected the pretext of lucrative employment opportunities.
The accused person been identified arsenic Nipender Chaudhary and Nilesh Narpatsinh Purohit. The bureau said the 2 were portion of a quality trafficking racket.
The CBI alleged that Nipender arranged logistics for Indian nationals to beryllium taken to Myanmar done Thailand. “Victims were transported from Bangkok to Mae Sot earlier being illegally moved crossed the Thailand-Myanmar borderline into scam compounds operating successful Myanmar,” said the agency.
The 2nd accused allegedly played a “central role” successful managing a web of sub-agents crossed India connected behalf of scam compound operators. He operated from an bureau wrong a scam compound adjacent the Thailand-Myanmar borderline and received payments successful cryptocurrency from operators of the amerciable establishments.
The CBI said the scam compounds are tally by transnational cybercrime syndicates and service arsenic hubs for large-scale cyber-enabled fiscal frauds targeting victims crossed aggregate countries. “Indian nationals trafficked to these facilities were allegedly coerced into participating successful amerciable cybercrime activities. Their state of question was restricted, passports were confiscated, and respective victims reportedly faced carnal and intelligence abuse. In galore cases, families were compelled to wage important sums of wealth to unafraid the merchandise of their relatives,” it said.
Earlier, successful May 2026, the CBI conducted searches astatine 8 locations crossed 4 States successful transportation with the aforesaid lawsuit and arrested different accused progressive successful the trafficking network.
