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Thirty nine foreigners, including 5 from Chinese mainland and 32 from China's Taiwan arrested Sunday evening with a huge quantity of illegal VoIP(Voiceover Internet Protocol) are being investigated, according to the director of the country's Anti-crime elite force(RAB)'s media wing.
The director Habibur Rahman said they are the arrested included 32 from China's Taiwan, 5 from Chinese mainland and their two drivers. They were arrested from a house in the capital's Uttara residential district.
Another police source demanding anonymity told Xinhua Monday night that VoIP business is no longer so lucrative, and RAB might be suspecting that they were doing other things outside VoIP business. The arrested included seven women.
One sub-inspector on duty at Uttara police station told Xinhua by phone that the arrested persons were not handed over to them.
It is the Bangladeshi rules that any person arrested by the elite force will be handed over to the concerned police and police with take them to court for bail.
One Bangladeshi private television channel Somoy (time) said the elite force is looking for the house owner. They are also inquiring whether there were more Bangladeshis involved with the arrested foreigners, who came to the country with tourist visas.
RAB official Rahman said they rented the house for one and half years.
Though VoIP is not illegal in Bangladesh, it is illegal to transmit the calls bypassing the proper channel, as it deprives the government of revenue, said an official of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
In the past, SIM cards of different telecom companies had been used in running illegal trading,but these foreigners used landlines, said the BTRC official.
High bandwidth connections of the state-runBangladesh Tele- communications Company Limited( BTCL) were found at the building, the official added.
