CHINESE NATIONAL, 3 ZAMBIANS INTERCEPT ZAMBIAN MOBILE COMMUNICATION, STEAL K5M
THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit together with the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has arrested three Zambians and one Chinese national for money laundering involving over K5 million.
The four are alleged to have fraudulently accessed the electronic communication network of a known mobile service provider.
DEC Public Relations Officer Hussein Khan says the suspects employed and deployed unlicensed, unauthorized sim boxes and managed to terminate international calls coming into Zambia.
Khan said that this caused the calls to be treated and charged as local calls, thereby gaining financially through the difference.
He says this illegal business was disguised by purporting that they were operating a money lending business named Vansiho Money Lending.
The bank account of Vansiho has been frozen with a balance of K5, 360, 288.93 suspected of being proceeds of crime.
The four are on bond and will appear in court soon.
