Chennai, May 10 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at 42 locations in eight states and arrested five people under ongoing Operation Chakra-V against Transnational Organised Cybercrime/Digital Arrest and to crackdown on sales of unauthorized SIM cards used in Cybercrime.

In continuation of ongoing efforts to curb Cybercrime/digital arrest cases as part of Operation Chakra -V, CBI launched searches at multiple locations on premise of various Point of Sale Agents of Telecom Operators, allegedly acting in connivance with Cybercrime criminals and unknown executive of Telecom Service providers in issuing SIMs cards which are subsequently used in illegal activities involving digital arrest, impers...