Why Is Dino Morea Being Questioned? What Is Rs 65-Crore Mithi River Scam? The Money Flow Explained

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 17:06 IST

Mumbai Mithi stream scam: Dino Morea and his member were questioned astir their alleged links with middleman Ketan Kadam arrested successful the lawsuit on with different accused, Jai Joshi

Dino Morea has been questioned doubly truthful acold successful transportation with the Mithi stream case. (PTI File)

Film histrion Dino Morea and his member were connected Wednesday questioned by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police successful the alleged Rs 65-crore Mithi stream desilting scam. This is the 2nd clip successful the past 3 days that the histrion was called for questioning.

Morea and his member Santino appeared earlier EOW officials astatine the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s bureau successful southbound Mumbai to grounds their statements.

The brothers were questioned astir their alleged links with a middleman, Ketan Kadam, arrested successful the lawsuit on with different accused, Jai Joshi, according to PTI.

MUMBAI’s MITHI RIVER

The Mithi River, which spans 17.8 km, originates from the overflow of the Vihar and Powai lakes and emptying into the Mahim Creek and the Arabian Sea.

Pollution and silt build-up, which successful crook blocked the travel from the stormwater drains, was seen arsenic 1 of the reasons down the July 2005 flooding successful Mumbai, which claimed implicit 1,000 lives.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India’s wealthiest civic body, has initiated aggregate desilting projects for the stream since past to debar a repeat.

THE SCAM

• It is alleged that tenders for renting specialised dredging instrumentality for the stream were manipulated to favour definite suppliers.
• These tenders were allegedly customised with circumstantial conditions to exclude competition, ensuring contracts went to favoured entities. The contractors past issued fraudulent bills for sludge transport that either did not hap oregon were exaggerated.
• Officials estimation the BMC incurred fiscal losses exceeding Rs 65 crore.
• One notable declaration worthy Rs 8 crore allegedly saw inflated payments reaching up to Rs 17 crore.

WHAT IS THE ACTOR’S CONNECTION?

As per the preliminary probe, Morea and his member had repeated telephone conversations with Kadam, an authoritative told PTI, adding the EOW squad besides recovered immoderate suspicious transactions of the arrested accused and were probing if the histrion had immoderate relation successful these transactions.

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Kadam and Joshi were progressive successful the renting retired of ‘silt pusher’ machines and multipurpose amphibious pontoon machines to contractors who were carrying retired Mithi stream desilting enactment successful the city.

THE ARRESTS

Earlier this month, the EOW registered a lawsuit against 13 persons, including civic officials and contractors for their alleged engagement successful a scam concerning the desilting of the stream which flows done the metropolis and drains into the Arabian Sea.

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