Initiated criminal case against persons organizing unauthorized int’l phone calls

The Main Anti-Corruption Department under the Prosecutor General has investigated the material on the provision of unauthorized international phone-call services, which was submitted by the State Security Service, APA reports.

Investigation has revealed sufficient grounds for suspicions that foreign nationals Basit Abdul and Igbal Tanveer entering into a criminal conspiracy with their compatriot Tahir, were engaged in entrepreneurial activities by providing unauthorized international phone-call services and caused AZN 7,500 damage to state. They used equipment called SIMbox to make calls to mobile operator networks via numbers belonging to “Azerfon”, “Azercell” and “Bakcell” LLC in the apartment they rented in Baku.

A criminal case was launched against them under article 192.2.1 (Implementation of business activity without registration in the order provided by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, or without special sanction (license) in cases when such sanction (license) is mandatory, or with infringement of conditions of licensing, which caused damage to citizens, organizations or state in the significant size, as well as committed with extraction of income in the significant size) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

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