New Delhi, March 26 The CBI has arrested the alleged mastermind of a racket that trafficked unsuspecting Indian citizens to cyber scam centers in Myanmar, officials said on Thursday.
The accused, a Mumbai resident named Sunil Nellathu Ramakrishnan, was allegedly supplying Indian citizens seeking employment to cyber slavery centers in Myanmar, particularly in the Myawaddy region (notably KK Park), where they were coerced to defraud people, they said.
"Investigations have revealed the existence of organized transnational criminal syndicates that lure victims with the pretense of lucrative job opportunities in Thailand.
"The victims are initially transported from Delhi to Bangkok and are then clandestinely diverted to Myanmar, where they are forced to work in cyber scam centers," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
Once trapped, the victims were forced to carry out various cyber frauds, such as digital arrest, romance fraud, and cryptocurrency investment scams, targeting victims across the globe, including India, the statement said.
"The trafficked individuals are subjected to wrongful confinement, constant intimidation, physical and mental abuse, with severe restrictions on their movement," it said.
The agency uncovered the modus operandi of rackets supplying manpower to these cyber slavery centers by conducting detailed interviews of victims who were repatriated from Thailand in March and November 2025.
"Sunil, also known as Krish, emerged as one of the main facilitators and kingpins in the trafficking network, who played a crucial role in the illegal transportation and exploitation of victims in Southeast Asia," the spokesperson said.
Sunil was kept under close surveillance and was arrested soon after he landed in Mumbai.
"Subsequently, searches were conducted at his residential premises, leading to the seizure of incriminating digital evidence related to trafficking operations in Myanmar and Cambodia," the statement said.