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Police, Subah collaboration saves Ghana over $77m

Director General of Police CID Commissioner Prosper Agblor revealed this at a press conference on Tuesday after five recent arrests were made by the taskforce set up to curtail the menace.

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Subah Info solutions and the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Taskforce on cyber and sim box fraud have collaborated to arrest various individuals including a Togolese national who are currently assisting police in their investigations.

"By our reckoning the state would have lost $77, 379, 000 million if these SIM box fraudsters had not been stopped in their tracks. Therefore, the state needs to mobilize all resources and revenue to achieve national developmental goals and therefore the taskforce together with its partners will not allow economic saboteurs to not only subvert the laudable development objectives of the state but will do everything possible within the confines of the laws of the land to ensure that these criminals are taken care of for good," COP Agblor said.

Mr. Agblor added that the taskforce and Subah Info Solutions' acqusition of superior and sophisticated equipment have enabled them to intensify the crackdown on sim box fraud.

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"Our intelligence gathering has revealed that the SIM Box fraudsters are using sophisticated equipment to evade detection. In order to curtail their activities, Subah Info Solutions Ghana Limited deployed more superior detection system which keeps us ahead of the activities of the fraudsters," he said.

Items retrieved from the suspects included surfline router, extension board, GB Transcend Pendrive, Channel PCI Cards, a double barrel pump action gun, Channel SIM server, laptops, monitors, tablets, phones, scratch cards, SIM cards and so on.

COP Agblor asked hotel owners to watch out for suspicious characters who rent their facilities, as sim box fraudsters mostly operate from sophisticated hotels.

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