Bhubaniewawar: Police Nagar Saheed in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday arrested seven people, including two employees of private telecommunications companies on charges of illegally obtaining SIM cards that have been activated and supply them to cyber criminals in other countries.
The police won more than 16,100 documented SIM cards from Vodafone service providers, BSNL, Jio and Airtel and 110 cellphones from the defendant, identified as Maheswar Barik (38), Rajanikant Panigrahi (30), Subrat Kumar Panigrahi (24), Engineering, Sukant Kumar Das (30), Engineering, Srinibas Ghadai (21), Rajesh Sethy (29) and Mangalamaya Mishra (27).
Police said Maheswar and Rajanikant worked as direct sales executives and territorial sales executives, with private telecommunications service providers.
Subrates and Sukant are technical graduates.
“The defendant produced a false document to obtain pre-active Sims with Convance and the Nexus of several private telecommunications employees.
The motives are doing or help committing crimes by hiding their own identity and using telephone numbers listed in other people’s names to mislead the police.
This is an action Theft and imitation of identity, “said the Director General of Abhay Police.
Police Commissioner Saumendra Priyadar said the gang had supplied more than two pre-active SIM lakh to cyber criminals in other countries, mostly in Haryana and Delhi.
The police were very losing down how the defendant managed to obtain a large number of SIM cards through the imitation and made them enabled by telecommunications companies without verifying valid documents.
The target of the suspect police stipulated by the telecommunications company to sell SIM cards might have encouraged several sales employees to use illegal practices.
“We are in the process of identifying all Nexus and the network has branching between countries.
More arrests tend.
We try to find out how they come into contact with interstate criminals to supply the SIM activated before.
People who are arrested are not directly involved in any cyber crime , but help violations by supplying Sims, “Priyadarshi said.
The source said the defendant sold each SIM activated at the RS 500.
“Initially, several defendants bought a large number of SIM cards that had been activated to take advantage of cashback offers on various e-commerce portals through the first registration of the new cellphone number of the new cellphone number of the number New phone from the new cellphone number of a new cellphone number from the new cellphone number.
Then, they contact several cyber criminals via YouTube and other websites and supply them pre-active Sims, “other police officers said.