The Mumbai Crime Branch’s probe into the fake BARC scientist case has uncovered explosive details about frequent foreign travel and suspicious financial inflows spanning more than two decades.

Investigators said the accused, Akhtar Hussain Qutubuddin Ahmed, 60, who allegedly posed as a scientist with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), had travelled abroad multiple times on a forged passport, visiting Iran nearly 20 times, Saudi Arabia around 15 times, and making several trips to Moscow, Russia, and Thailand.