Acting on inputs provided by the Mumbai Crime Branch, police nabbed the four suspects – T Laxminarayan Sharoff, Pradeep Choudhury, Suresh Kumar Satpathy, and Santosh Kumar Sahu.
They were arrested under section 420, 467, 468, 471, 34 of IPC r/w Section 66 (B), 66 (C) of IT Act-2000.
Police seized five China made sim boxes, mostly used by terrorists and underworld dons, from their possession.
According to police, the four made a fortune by using the sim boxes. Calls were being made from Hong Kong through this sim box exchange in Ganjam. An amount of Rs 2 crore was also demanded by the gang from a rich Mumbai-based contractor in an extortion bid in the name of dreaded gangster Chhota Rajan.
Further investigation is on.