Mumbai, November 5: A 60-year-old man, recently arrested by the Mumbai Police for impersonating a scientist from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), was allegedly attempting to sell a purported nuclear-related design to companies in Iran under the pretext of “scientific collaboration” and “research partnership,” investigators said.

According to probe agency sources, the accused, Akhtar Hussaini Qutbuddin Ahmed, and his brother Adil Hussaini (59), who has also been arrested, were using VPNs and encrypted networks to peddle a design claimed to be that of a lithium-6-based fusion reactor. The duo had visited Tehran between March and April, and reportedly made multiple visits to the Iranian embassies in India and Dubai.

Officials revealed that the men even duped a Mumbai-based Iranian

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