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GP official among 2 held for selling illegal SIMs
DHAKA, Oct 7, 2018 (BSS) – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday
evening arrested two persons along with a huge quantity of SIM cards of
Grameenphone from the city’s Mirpur area.
“We arrested two persons, Toufiq Hossain Khan Palash, 38, and a senior
executive (business cell) of GP, Syed Tanvirur Rahman, 35, and seized 867
pieces of SIMs issued against 42 companies without taking their approval,
from the capital’s Mirpur area around 7.30pm on Saturday,” said a RAB
official.
A squad of RAB-4 conducted the drive upon filing of an extortion case with
Bhashantek Police Station by a foreigner, he said, adding that the foreigner
alleged a person identifying him Mamun phoned him (foreigner) over his number
from 01789822189 and demanded Taka 10 crore as extortion.
Registration of the GP number (01789822189) was given against a company
Microcode Information without taking their approval, he informed.
During the primary investigation, RAB officials have found that the
arrestees in connivance with each other used to take registration of a huge
number of GP SIM cards against many companies without taking their approval
and later sold those to other people at higher price.
Legal action was taken to this end.
BSS/ASG/AHJ/FI/1702 hrs