Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing questioned actor Dino Morea for nearly six hours on Friday, October 2, in connection with the alleged ₹65.54 crore Mithi River desilting scam. The actor reached the EOW office in south Mumbai around 1:30 pm, and he was allowed to leave after his statement was recorded. Police said he may be summoned again as the investigation progresses.
Morea’s name surfaced after investigators examined call detail records allegedly showing contact between the actor, his brother Santino Morea, and people linked to the probe — chief among them Ketan Kadam, an accused middleman arrested in 2025. Investigators are scrutinising financial transactions in the ₹14–18 lakh range between the actor’s circle and Kadam-linked firms, including UBO Ridez Private Limited, where Santino previously served as a director. The Enforcement Directorate had also searched Morea’s residence earlier this year as part of a parallel money-laundering probe.
The important context: despite Friday’s headlines suggesting a detention, the actor has denied being arrested and the EOW has not named him as an accused — he was called in to verify facts and documents. The wider case, centred on alleged tender manipulation and inflated equipment rentals in the BMC’s Mithi River desilting contracts that reportedly caused a ₹65.54 crore loss to the civic body, has seen at least three arrests and three chargesheets so far. Morea and his brother were also questioned in the case in May 2025.
