A
former boss of Ghana Real Estates Developers Association (GREDA), Dr
Alexander Tweneboah, and nine others have been arrested by an
Anti-Telecommunication Fraud taskforce in collaboration with the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service with
support from SUBAH Info Solutions Ghana Limited.
The
other nine suspects are Ebenezer Boateng, Victor Owusu, Kwadwo Asare,
Emmanuel Kofi Essilfie, Edmond Essilfie, Kwaku Appiah, Alvin Habib,
Francis Abbey and David Ayitsi. Dr Tweneboah was arrested alongside
others in his house at Baatsona in Accra. The suspects were said to have
caused financial loss to the state to the tune of over $33 million. The
suspects, including two foreign nationals, were arrested for allegedly
engaging in illegal SIM box operations in various locations in Accra,
Tema, Koforidua and Kumasi in the Greater Accra, Eastern and the Ashanti
Regions respectively. The arrests were made possible through the Joint
Anti-Telecom Fraud Task force made up of detectives from the CID
Headquarters, officials from the National Communications Authority
(NCA), the various telecom service providers in Ghana, and with
technical support from SUBAH. Subah deployed its sophisticated gadgets
to locate the suspects from their hideouts where they were caught red
handed.
The
operations started on December 26, 2014 before Subah Infosolutions
brought its sophisticated equipment on Thursday, January 8, 2015 to
complement existing devices.
Items
retrieved from the suspects included thousands of different SIM cards,
SIM box equipment, heavy duty batteries, SIM Servers, 4G Modems,
printers, laptops and assorted scratched cards. COP Agblor, while
describing the arrest as one of the biggest and most successful
operations embarked upon by the taskforce as far as SIM box fraud was
concerned, said, 'All the suspects arrested so far in connection with
the illegal SIM box activities have been arraigned before court and
remanded into police custody pending further investigation.'
He
said the taskforce was determined to pursue SIM Box fraudsters and
other criminals operating in the country, and called on the general
public to co-operate with the police by reporting activities of anyone
engaged in such a criminal act within their communities. He said the
participation of Subah in the all-important exercise was by virtue of
the fact that they had a contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA)
to monitor both local and foreign inbound calls for the purposes of
checking leakages in national revenue. The Managing Director of Subah
Infosolutions, Birenda Sasmal, disclosed that 'assisting regulatory and
security agencies to effect the arrest of these fraudsters is one of the
many ways Subah is helping reduce revenue loss to the Government and
people of Ghana. Subah remains committed to facilitating effective
telecom resource mobilisation for national development.'
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