The CBI has arrested Dwibendu Moharana, a prime accused in a transnational tech-support scam that defrauded Japanese citizens through fake customer service calls.

Moharana, who had been absconding since May, was apprehended at the Bhubaneswar airport on Thursday upon his return from the UAE. Officials said he was the mastermind behind an illegal Noida-based call centre--VoIP Connect Pvt Ltd--that impersonated technical support executives of reputed multinational companies to extort money from unsuspecting victims abroad.

According to the CBI, the arrest marks a major step in Operation Chakra-V, an ongoing crackdown on global cybercrime networks.

Moharana’s name surfaced after CBI raids on May 28 this year at 19 locations across Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, which led to the arrest o

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