MUMBAI: Actor Dino Morea was questioned for around six hours by the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Friday in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the desilting of the Mithi River. Morea and his brother, Santino, had also been questioned in the case in May 2025.
The EOW is also examining the business links between the Morea brothers and the family of arrested accused Ketan Kadam. The case involves alleged financial irregularities, inflated tenders, and corrupt practices. The EOW also arrested Jayesh Joshi, who is associated with a Mumbai-based industrial product manufacturer Virgo Specialties Private Limited. Investigators suspect that, in alleged collusion with the company, the accused rented out the machinery to contractors at inflated rates rather than selling it.
Ketan Kadam was arrested on May 7 and is among 13 people booked in the case for allegedly causing the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) a loss of ₹ 65.54 crore through irregulariites in the desilting project.
Investigators summoned Dino Morea again after examining phone records that allegedly showed him in regular touch with people linked to the case, said a police officer. Police said Dino Morea, Santino Rocco Morea and Punita Kadam, Ketan Kadam’s wife, were directors of UBO Ridez Private Limited. Police said when contractors approached Matprop to purchase the equipment, they were instead directed to Joshi and Ketan Kadam. EOW officers said the civic body manipulated records to inflate the amount of silt removed from the river, thus benefiting the contractors.
EOW set up a special investigation team in August 2024 after ruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Prasad Lad and Pravin Darekar alleged irregularities in desilting the 17.84-km-long river.
