GP official among 2 held for illegal SIM regn
Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained Grameen Phone’s (GP) Senior Executive (Business Sales) Syed Tanvirur Rahman and one Toufiq Hossain Khan alias Polash, from the city’s Mirpur area in connection with illegal SIM (Subscriber Identification Number) registration.
Huge quantum of SIM cards were recovered from their possessions on Saturday.
Additional DIG
Chowdhury Monjurul Karim informed this at a press conference held at RAB media centre in city’s Karwan Bazar on Sunday.
He said that number of crimes, including giving of the threat for money from different gangs by using illegal numbers decreased to a great extent after the SIM re-registration in biometric system.
But recently RAB-4 carried out an investigation on receiving some allegations of giving threat for money through phone calls.
During the investigation, the elite force came to know that few officials of a distribution house and a section of unscrupulous officials of Grameen Phone were engaged in selling SIM cards after completing registration illegally.
On September 19, a foreign national filed a general diary (GD) with Bhasantek Police Stations alleging that a person named Mamun called him from a Grameen Phone number and demanded money from him. The caller also threatened him to death if the money was not given.
Following investigation, a team of RAB-4 conducted a drive and picked up them for interrogation.
Later on Saturday night, a case was filed in this connection and they were shown arrested in the case.
During the period of June 9-11 this year, 867 SIM cards were activated for 42 companies without their consent.
Tanvirur Rahman supervised the whole process with the help of the distribution house, said the RAB official.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained Grameen Phone’s (GP) Senior Executive (Business Sales) Syed Tanvirur Rahman and one Toufiq Hossain Khan alias Polash, from the city’s Mirpur area in connection with illegal SIM (Subscriber Identification Number) registration.
Huge quantum of SIM cards were recovered from their possessions on Saturday.
Additional DIG
Chowdhury Monjurul Karim informed this at a press conference held at RAB media centre in city’s Karwan Bazar on Sunday.
He said that number of crimes, including giving of the threat for money from different gangs by using illegal numbers decreased to a great extent after the SIM re-registration in biometric system.
But recently RAB-4 carried out an investigation on receiving some allegations of giving threat for money through phone calls.
During the investigation, the elite force came to know that few officials of a distribution house and a section of unscrupulous officials of Grameen Phone were engaged in selling SIM cards after completing registration illegally.
On September 19, a foreign national filed a general diary (GD) with Bhasantek Police Stations alleging that a person named Mamun called him from a Grameen Phone number and demanded money from him. The caller also threatened him to death if the money was not given.
Following investigation, a team of RAB-4 conducted a drive and picked up them for interrogation.
Later on Saturday night, a case was filed in this connection and they were shown arrested in the case.
During the period of June 9-11 this year, 867 SIM cards were activated for 42 companies without their consent.
Tanvirur Rahman supervised the whole process with the help of the distribution house, said the RAB official.
