Illegal gateway exchanges seized in Kohat

KOHAT: Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided a house and seized four illegal gateway exchanges in Junglekhel town here on Thursday. They also arrested a man from the house.

Sources said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had informed the FIA that somebody was operating an illegal gateway exchange in the area. The FIA traced the signals which were coming from a house in Junglekhel and conducted a raid along with the police.

The raiding party arrested a man, identified as Sajid Khan, and seized 1,600 SIMs of different companies, operating links, two modems, one computer system and four gateway excahnges from the house. The sources said that the suspect was earning over Rs10 million a month.

They said that the suspect had been taken to the FIA headquarters, Islamabad, from where the team had come here to arrest him.

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Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2015