Bollywood actor and model Dino Morea has been arrested by the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in connection with the multi-crore Mithi river desilting and rejuvenation scam.
According to reports, Morea was taken into custody on October 2 following nearly eight hours of intensive questioning at his Bandra residence. The high-profile arrest stems from an ongoing investigation into alleged financial irregularities and corruption surrounding contracts awarded for cleaning and deepening Mumbai’s vital Mithi river channel.
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The EOW estimates that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) suffered a massive financial loss of Rs 65.54 crore due to the fraudulent contract execution. Investigators are probing a complex web of civic officials, contractors, and intermediaries, scrutinizing how tenders were engineered and payments were distributed.
Morea’s entanglement in the case first came to light after police examined digital communications and call records linking him to key suspects. Both Dino Morea and his brother, Santino Morea, were previously questioned by the EOW in May 2025. Financial auditors and investigators have been closely scrutinizing transactions involving Santino’s firm, UBO Ridez Private Limited.
According to EOW findings from 2025, approximately Rs 18 lakh was transferred across multiple transactions to UBO Ridez by Ketan Kadam, a key accused individual linked to Vodar India LLP. Crucially, investigators discovered that Vodar India LLP and UBO Ridez shared the exact same operational address near Famous Studio in Worli, Mumbai.
