DHAKA, July 11, 2024 (BSS)- Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested
a man along with huge illegal mobile SIM cards and Voice over Internet
Protocol or VoIP, an alternative to landline-based telephone systems,
equipment during a overnight raid in the city's Badda area last night.

The arrested was identified as M Raju, 36, son of Yunus Ali Bhuiyan hailed
from Ramganj upazila of Lakhipur district.

"The RAB members arrested Raju from Badda Thana area around 9pm on Wednesday
while conducting a joint operation with National Telecommunication Monitoring
Center (NTMC)," said Assistant Police Super and Assistant Director (OPS and
Media) of RAB-1 M Mahfuzur Rahman.

The team also recovered 30 VoIP SIM boxes, 5,050 SIM cards, two power-cables,
one router, one mouse, six pen-drive, six mobile phones, five laptops, five
inter-switch boxes, one keyboard, one flexi load SIM and a huge amount of
VoIP equipment from his possession.

"It was evident through primary interrogation that the arrested person is a
member of a group of illegal business circles and they were involved in
telecommunications business for long without taking any license from
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)", said the RAB
official.

The primary interrogation also revealed that this illegal business group was
reportedly providing calling card, payment and recharge services in different
countries including the Middle East by installing servers in the country and
they routed international calls and evaded huge government tax and earned
crores of money through operating these illegal telecommunication services.