Kolkata/New Delhi, June 11: A Chinese national apprehended while trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border illegally has told the investigators that he and his associates have smuggled as many as 1,300 Indian SIM cards into their country by hiding them in undergarments, the BSF said on Friday.
Han Junwe (35), a resident of China’s Hubei province, has been handed over by the Border Security Force (BSF) to the West Bengal police for “further legal proceedings”. He was nabbed by a BSF patrol party from the Malda district of the state on Thursday.
“Junwe has been a wanted criminal and upon thorough interrogation, shocking facts have come to the fore that he has so far taken around 1,300 Indian SIMs from India to China using fake documents. “Junwe, through his associates, used to hide the SIMs in undergarments and send these to China,” the Kolkata-headquartered south Bengal frontier of the BSF said in a statement. These SIM cards, it alleged, were used to hack accounts and carry out financial frauds. (PTI)
