The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested a Russian national, who was held at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on arrival from Kazakhstan’s Almaty, for questioning pertaining to the alleged tampering of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Main) about a year ago.
The person, identified as Mikhail Shargin, is suspected to have helped the other accused persons in hacking into the software platform on which the examination was held. He was intercepted by the immigration officials at the airport on the strength of a look-out circular opened against him.
“During investigation, it came to light that some foreign nationals were involved in compromising many online examinations, including the JEE (Mains)...the role of one Russian national was revealed, who had allegedly tampered with the iLeon software — the platform on which the JEE(Main)-2021 examination was conducted,” said a CBI official.
