Lucknow, Nov. 25 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a key absconding operative involved in a major transnational cybercrime network and busted an illegal call centre in Lucknow that was targeting American citizens.
The accused, Vikas Kumar Nimar, had been on the run since September 2024 after the CBI registered a case on 24 September 2024 and carried out extensive searches across multiple locations, according to an official communique of the central investigating agency released on Tuesday.
Earlier investigations led the agency to dismantle four illegal call centres operating in Pune, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. These centres were allegedly involved in defrauding foreign nationals through sophisticated cyber-enable...