“Although very few Bangladeshi and Chinese nationals are found involved in VOIP, they are the orginators of this illegal business. They are ahead in terms of quality,” said DIG Upendra Kanta Aryal, chief at Central Investigation Bureau (CIB). [break]
The team of CIB, after launching ´operation voice fox´, in July 2010, has already raided 34 call-bypass cells in different places and nabbed 70 people involved in such illegal business. Among the arrested 54 are Nepali, 13 Bangladeshi and three Chinese.
Similarly, figures obtained from CIB show that only 80 million minutes of calls were transferred to Nepal from abroad in a month before CIB launched its operation. The call duration reached up to 218 million minutes per month after the operation and contributed to an additional Rs. 1.74 billion in revenues.
Meanwhile, police have confiscated altogether 15,651 SIM cards -- 11,105 belonging to Ncell, 3436 belonging to Nepal Telecom, 929 belonging to UTL, 115 belonging to Sky/Smart and 66 of foreign registration.
Speaking at a function in Kathmandu Thursday, DIG Aryal said, “Unless there is a good control over the Internet service providers, technical equipment related to telecom and distribution of SIM cards, there can´t be complete control over VOIP.”
Stating that police can´t alone curb the illegal call-bypass operation, Aryal urged the telecom operators to re-verify their SIM cards.
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