Overview
- Ubaid Ullah, arrested in Guwahati early Sunday under Operation Chakra-V, had been on the run since August 2025.
- Investigators say he moved about Rs 67 lakh through multiple bank accounts to pay Point of Sale agents for roughly 10,000 illegally issued SIM cards.
- Evidence of courier shipments used to move the SIM cards points to a structured logistics network that fed cybercrime operations.
- CBI searches at about 45 locations across eight states have already led to the arrest of 10 POS agents accused of bypassing customer checks to issue the cards.
- The SIMs enabled anonymous calls and messages used in digital-arrest, fake-loan, and investment frauds that target people nationwide, and the probe now seeks other conspirators tied to the network.