CCB unearths illegal telephone exchange racket being operated from data centre in Whitefield

A Mobile Service Provider led the central criminal branch officials to reveal another illegal international telephone treaty racket from a data center in Whitefield.

Based on a complaint made by the Telecom Office and Vodafone, an authorized team raided the Iron Mountain Data Center in Whitefield and seized six SIM boxes, 133 SIM cards, 12 data storage server, an internet protocol special branch exchange (IPBX), a network router and other equipment.

Police arrested 35 -year -old Tubail Ahmed, graduated from Tamil Nadu, allegedly operating the second, while two partners inspected operations from Dubai.

Police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh said the defendants turned international calls into local ones and thus cheating on service providers and telekals. During the investigation, the police also found that the service was now used for cyber crimes, which are now part of the investigation.

The defendant had rented space to run the illegal stock market.

This is the third example of the racket of an illegal phone change operated from the city which has been revealed in the last month.

The racket appeared on the basis of the warning received by Vodafone from the telecommunication department for a suspicious illegal SIM box operation allegedly used to facilitate cyber financial fraud. The event was viewed especially in the Whitefield area, especially in ITPL (ITPL).

DOT also said that the 107 mobile phone numbers published by Vodafone-Idea Limited were suspected of being used on SIM box devices by violating telecom arrangements.

The service provider found that all 107 SIM cards were given to a company called Gleam Global Services India Private Limited. The technical analysis showed that these SIM cards were abused in SIM box devices to direct unauthorized or fraudulent calls that pose a serious violation in accordance with the 2023 telecommunications law.

In a similar case, the CCB officials arrested TUFAIL, the police detained him for seven days and a detailed inquiry led him to confess the crime.

The CCB officials gathered the details of their partners in Dubai and efforts to secure them are continuing. However, CCB officials have managed to interrupt the at least three illegal telephone treaty rackets and suspect that they are more.