Security services arrest disabled, housekeepers who spied on calls of Algerians
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Services of the National Gendarmerie arrested 11 people in Algerians, including workers, housekeepers and disabled, who belong to a cell of SIM cards trafficking, which do not contain identity documents, through a social network, to be used in fraud and spying on people, and incitement, as they were mostly sold in Ghardaia (Southern Algeria), where nearly 500 SIM cards were seized, pending the completion of investigation.
The process, according to Echorouk information, started after the regional battalion of Harrache Gendarmerie received information about the activity of a cell of 10 people whose ages rage between 24 and 36 years, including workers, cleaners and physically disabled, who sell mobile phone SIM cards illegally in Algiers and Blida, through social network to sell them.
Based on this information, a plan to entrap members of the cell was prepared, through arresting the first suspect, who is named “L.A”, and questioning him about the SIM cards’ source, as security services discovered that they are extracted with the complicity of workers of a private company, and they are sold illegally and without any document for 100 DA per SIM card.
Gendarmerie investigations showed that the anonymous SIM cards were used in fraud, espionage and acts of incitement on the chaos and vandalism, especially that most of these cards were sold in Ghardaia (southern Algeria).
Gendarmerie investigations enabled the arrest of seven members of the gang in Hussein Dey municipality on April, 11 and 12, while the rest four memebers were arrested in Blida, after obtaining the extension of jurisdiction of the prosecution, then, as the investigation led to seizing 500 SIM cards.
Same services launched a set of actions to identify the SIM cards that were sold, as members of the cell were brought before the prosecutor at the Court of Hussein Dey, pending for the completion of the investigation.